County annual report · FIPS 13313
2016 Whitfield County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Whitfield County, GA went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 40K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.8 hours). That ranks 123rd worst of 157 Georgia counties and 1991st 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 Whitfield 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 | November 28, 2016 14:45 | November 29, 2016 20:15 | 1d 5h | 3,277 | 18K |
| 2 | June 14, 2016 18:15 | June 15, 2016 03:00 | 8h 45m | 1,445 | 853 |
| 3 | July 19, 2016 23:30 | July 20, 2016 08:30 | 9h | 1,424 | 4,005 |
| 4 | May 30, 2016 21:00 | May 31, 2016 07:30 | 10h 30m | 1,385 | 3,032 |
| 5 | July 17, 2016 20:00 | July 17, 2016 20:30 | 30m | 1,067 | 534 |
| 6 | December 5, 2016 20:30 | December 6, 2016 00:15 | 3h 45m | 1,033 | 271 |
| 7 | December 26, 2016 05:30 | December 26, 2016 20:15 | 14h 45m | 907 | 4,392 |
| 8 | June 16, 2016 00:45 | June 16, 2016 06:30 | 5h 45m | 547 | 1,181 |
| 9 | November 30, 2016 01:00 | November 30, 2016 21:00 | 20h | 389 | 938 |
| 10 | August 26, 2016 20:00 | August 27, 2016 00:30 | 4h 30m | 288 | 701 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 16 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 Whitfield 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 |
| North Georgia Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 2.9 hrs | 1.76 | 2.4 hrs | 1.60 |
| Dalton Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 71,130 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. Whitfield County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Whitfield 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/whitfield-county