County annual report · FIPS 13233
2016 Polk County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Polk County, GA went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 42K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.8 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 1272nd 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 Polk 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 | June 1, 2016 18:45 | June 2, 2016 08:30 | 13h 45m | 1,969 | 9,106 |
| 2 | November 28, 2016 15:45 | November 29, 2016 16:45 | 1d 1h | 1,521 | 4,143 |
| 3 | April 22, 2016 04:00 | April 22, 2016 21:00 | 17h | 1,507 | 4,697 |
| 4 | June 16, 2016 01:30 | June 16, 2016 10:00 | 8h 30m | 1,315 | 4,813 |
| 5 | December 16, 2016 21:00 | December 16, 2016 22:15 | 1h 15m | 1,156 | 291 |
| 6 | April 6, 2016 00:15 | April 6, 2016 01:30 | 1h 15m | 1,063 | 862 |
| 7 | April 12, 2016 04:30 | April 12, 2016 18:30 | 14h | 869 | 990 |
| 8 | August 14, 2016 22:45 | August 14, 2016 23:45 | 1h | 810 | 608 |
| 9 | April 21, 2016 19:45 | April 21, 2016 23:00 | 3h 15m | 615 | 312 |
| 10 | August 18, 2016 10:45 | August 18, 2016 14:30 | 3h 45m | 483 | 679 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 29 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Polk 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 |
| Carroll Electric Member Corp - (GA) | 2016 | 2.3 hrs | 1.43 | 1.8 hrs | 1.27 |
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 ÷ 19,098 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county