County annual report · FIPS 13261
2016 Sumter County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Sumter County, GA went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 22K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.8 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 1491st 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 Sumter 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 | January 23, 2016 19:45 | January 23, 2016 20:30 | 45m | 1,317 | 549 |
| 2 | March 8, 2016 20:00 | March 8, 2016 23:15 | 3h 15m | 936 | 303 |
| 3 | July 15, 2016 21:00 | July 16, 2016 00:00 | 3h | 890 | 1,562 |
| 4 | July 11, 2016 20:30 | July 12, 2016 04:45 | 8h 15m | 543 | 958 |
| 5 | June 25, 2016 06:30 | June 25, 2016 08:30 | 2h | 493 | 986 |
| 6 | July 10, 2016 21:00 | July 11, 2016 07:00 | 10h | 439 | 3,450 |
| 7 | November 18, 2016 13:00 | November 18, 2016 15:15 | 2h 15m | 408 | 473 |
| 8 | September 11, 2016 05:15 | September 11, 2016 09:30 | 4h 15m | 407 | 1,038 |
| 9 | August 23, 2016 22:30 | August 24, 2016 05:00 | 6h 30m | 367 | 402 |
| 10 | August 21, 2016 21:15 | August 21, 2016 23:45 | 2h 30m | 279 | 628 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 32 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Sumter 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 |
| Flint Electric Membership Corp | 2013 | 89 min | 1.24 | 89 min | 1.24 |
| Sumter Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 13,979 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. Sumter County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sumter 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/sumter-county