County annual report · FIPS 13295
2016 Walker County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Walker County, GA went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.8 hours). That ranks 126th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 2030th 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 Walker 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 | December 18, 2016 09:00 | December 18, 2016 19:00 | 10h | 5,647 | 8,541 |
| 2 | December 29, 2016 13:45 | December 29, 2016 23:30 | 9h 45m | 1,106 | 1,341 |
| 3 | December 6, 2016 19:30 | December 6, 2016 20:00 | 30m | 664 | 332 |
| 4 | September 27, 2016 05:15 | September 27, 2016 07:00 | 1h 45m | 482 | 841 |
| 5 | November 30, 2016 07:00 | November 30, 2016 09:30 | 2h 30m | 451 | 588 |
| 6 | September 11, 2016 05:30 | September 11, 2016 07:00 | 1h 30m | 294 | 441 |
| 7 | October 21, 2016 00:15 | October 21, 2016 02:00 | 1h 45m | 293 | 510 |
| 8 | December 4, 2016 14:00 | December 4, 2016 22:15 | 8h 15m | 262 | 430 |
| 9 | July 18, 2016 18:00 | July 18, 2016 22:00 | 4h | 211 | 515 |
| 10 | June 3, 2016 17:45 | June 3, 2016 21:00 | 3h 15m | 205 | 409 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 13 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Walker 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 |
| City of Chattanooga - (TN) | 2016 | 1.7 hrs | 0.83 | 54 min | 0.51 |
| North Georgia Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 2.9 hrs | 1.76 | 2.4 hrs | 1.60 |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Chickamauga | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of LaFayette - (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 ÷ 39,350 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. Walker County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Walker 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/walker-county