County annual report · FIPS 13227
2016 Pickens County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Pickens County, GA went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 74K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.8 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 157 Georgia counties and 740th 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 Pickens 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 | August 30, 2016 19:30 | August 30, 2016 22:30 | 3h | 2,207 | 1,134 |
| 2 | November 10, 2016 18:30 | November 10, 2016 21:30 | 3h | 2,207 | 1,657 |
| 3 | January 22, 2016 03:30 | January 23, 2016 13:00 | 1d 9h | 1,693 | 10K |
| 4 | July 16, 2016 19:30 | July 17, 2016 09:30 | 14h | 1,407 | 4,581 |
| 5 | June 1, 2016 22:00 | June 2, 2016 14:30 | 16h 30m | 1,389 | 12K |
| 6 | November 19, 2016 15:15 | November 19, 2016 23:15 | 8h | 1,186 | 1,564 |
| 7 | May 12, 2016 18:45 | May 12, 2016 21:45 | 3h | 1,084 | 1,643 |
| 8 | March 25, 2016 19:00 | March 25, 2016 19:30 | 30m | 922 | 461 |
| 9 | July 31, 2016 20:45 | August 1, 2016 02:45 | 6h | 909 | 4,132 |
| 10 | July 21, 2016 19:30 | July 22, 2016 02:30 | 7h | 832 | 1,836 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 47 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Pickens 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 |
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 ÷ 17,031 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. Pickens County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pickens 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/pickens-county