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2017 Chatham County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Chatham County, GA went without power for an average of 23.4 hours, a total of 3.4M customer-hours (Georgia average 14.2 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 158 Georgia counties and 235th 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 Chatham 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 10, 2017 05:45 | September 19, 2017 08:30 | 9d 2h | 76,043 | 3.0M |
| 2 | August 8, 2017 13:45 | August 10, 2017 18:45 | 2d 5h | 5,210 | 11K |
| 3 | January 7, 2017 06:30 | January 7, 2017 22:30 | 16h | 4,820 | 3,363 |
| 4 | May 23, 2017 21:00 | May 27, 2017 01:15 | 3d 4h | 4,145 | 12K |
| 5 | September 27, 2017 11:45 | September 28, 2017 00:00 | 12h 15m | 3,848 | 1,677 |
| 6 | July 8, 2017 17:30 | July 10, 2017 03:00 | 1d 9h | 3,681 | 6,505 |
| 7 | September 2, 2017 11:30 | September 3, 2017 04:00 | 16h 30m | 3,677 | 3,008 |
| 8 | April 24, 2017 09:00 | April 24, 2017 23:30 | 14h 30m | 3,464 | 3,041 |
| 9 | May 8, 2017 00:30 | May 8, 2017 04:30 | 4h | 3,391 | 3,197 |
| 10 | July 2, 2017 06:45 | July 4, 2017 08:45 | 2d 2h | 3,377 | 9,368 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 163 reached 100+ customers, 48 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Chatham 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 |
| Canoochee 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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 143,708 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. Chatham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chatham 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/chatham-county