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2016 Jefferson County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Jefferson County, GA went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 34K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.8 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 815th 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 Jefferson 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 | July 5, 2016 20:45 | July 6, 2016 03:30 | 6h 45m | 2,257 | 2,921 |
| 2 | February 24, 2016 10:15 | February 25, 2016 05:00 | 18h 45m | 1,700 | 2,974 |
| 3 | April 11, 2016 10:15 | April 11, 2016 10:30 | 15m | 1,545 | 386 |
| 4 | April 20, 2016 09:45 | April 20, 2016 10:00 | 15m | 1,536 | 384 |
| 5 | March 4, 2016 22:15 | March 5, 2016 00:45 | 2h 30m | 1,287 | 1,643 |
| 6 | June 17, 2016 20:45 | June 18, 2016 09:00 | 12h 15m | 980 | 4,479 |
| 7 | October 25, 2016 17:30 | October 26, 2016 00:30 | 7h | 859 | 704 |
| 8 | March 18, 2016 03:30 | March 18, 2016 12:30 | 9h | 766 | 3,898 |
| 9 | July 15, 2016 23:15 | July 16, 2016 05:30 | 6h 15m | 599 | 414 |
| 10 | July 31, 2016 13:30 | July 31, 2016 14:15 | 45m | 598 | 449 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 36 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Jefferson 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 |
| Jefferson Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 2.3 hrs | 1.37 | 1.7 hrs | 1.25 |
| Washington Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 14.6 hrs | - | 4.1 hrs | - |
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 ÷ 8,747 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. Jefferson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jefferson 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/jefferson-county