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2016 Gilmer County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Gilmer County, GA went without power for an average of 10.3 hours, a total of 176K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.8 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 332nd of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with GA, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Georgia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Gilmer County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 10, 2016 20:30 | April 10, 2016 21:15 | 45m | 6,879 | 2,549 |
| 2 | March 30, 2016 22:45 | March 31, 2016 02:00 | 3h 15m | 3,275 | 7,476 |
| 3 | March 30, 2016 16:15 | March 30, 2016 22:00 | 5h 45m | 3,272 | 13K |
| 4 | March 2, 2016 00:30 | March 2, 2016 09:15 | 8h 45m | 2,279 | 5,458 |
| 5 | February 24, 2016 05:15 | February 25, 2016 01:15 | 20h | 2,122 | 10K |
| 6 | June 27, 2016 18:30 | June 28, 2016 13:45 | 19h 15m | 2,056 | 5,032 |
| 7 | December 29, 2016 16:15 | December 30, 2016 00:30 | 8h 15m | 1,889 | 3,031 |
| 8 | July 6, 2016 21:30 | July 7, 2016 14:30 | 17h | 1,844 | 2,364 |
| 9 | August 4, 2016 19:45 | August 4, 2016 23:30 | 3h 45m | 1,793 | 871 |
| 10 | July 27, 2016 12:45 | July 27, 2016 20:00 | 7h 15m | 1,756 | 870 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 86 reached 100+ customers, 26 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Gilmer County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia Power Co | 2016 | 9.7 hrs | 1.63 | 2.3 hrs | 1.43 |
| Amicalola Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 7.5 hrs | 3.34 | 7.5 hrs | 3.34 |
| Blue Ridge Mountain EMC - (GA) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Georgia's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 17,004 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Gilmer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gilmer County, GA annual power outage report, 2016, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/georgia/gilmer-county