County annual report · FIPS 13017
2017 Ben Hill County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Ben Hill County, GA went without power for an average of 10.4 hours, a total of 152K customer-hours (Georgia average 14.2 hours). That ranks 90th worst of 158 Georgia counties and 521st of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with GA, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Georgia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ben Hill County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 11, 2017 06:00 | September 16, 2017 01:15 | 4d 19h | 3,204 | 143K |
| 2 | September 20, 2017 20:15 | September 20, 2017 21:30 | 1h 15m | 2,009 | 609 |
| 3 | May 5, 2017 18:15 | May 5, 2017 19:30 | 1h 15m | 596 | 447 |
| 4 | October 14, 2017 20:15 | October 14, 2017 22:00 | 1h 45m | 531 | 826 |
| 5 | July 2, 2017 02:30 | July 2, 2017 04:00 | 1h 30m | 419 | 604 |
| 6 | May 25, 2017 02:45 | May 25, 2017 05:45 | 3h | 320 | 925 |
| 7 | August 7, 2017 20:30 | August 7, 2017 22:45 | 2h 15m | 309 | 340 |
| 8 | June 6, 2017 03:00 | June 6, 2017 04:15 | 1h 15m | 249 | 311 |
| 9 | August 25, 2017 20:15 | August 25, 2017 21:30 | 1h 15m | 204 | 204 |
| 10 | September 10, 2017 15:15 | September 10, 2017 16:00 | 45m | 136 | 102 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 12 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 Ben Hill County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 18.4 hrs | 2.19 | 1.9 hrs | 1.16 |
| Satilla Rural Elec Member Corporation | - | - | - | - | - |
| Irwin Electric Membership Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Middle Georgia El Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Fitzgerald Wtr Lgt & Bond Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 14,643 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. Ben Hill County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ben Hill County, GA annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/georgia/ben-hill-county