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2017 Cherokee County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Cherokee County, GA went without power for an average of 6.4 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (Georgia average 14.2 hours). That ranks 117th worst of 158 Georgia counties and 811th 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 Cherokee 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 | December 8, 2017 13:15 | December 14, 2017 09:15 | 5d 20h | 25,799 | 750K |
| 2 | March 22, 2017 00:15 | March 23, 2017 23:15 | 1d 23h | 11,713 | 78K |
| 3 | September 11, 2017 15:45 | September 15, 2017 22:30 | 4d 6h | 9,583 | 172K |
| 4 | March 30, 2017 18:45 | March 31, 2017 02:30 | 7h 45m | 4,496 | 1,390 |
| 5 | October 8, 2017 12:30 | October 9, 2017 11:30 | 23h | 2,615 | 6,227 |
| 6 | July 21, 2017 23:00 | July 22, 2017 22:15 | 23h 15m | 2,564 | 1,858 |
| 7 | October 5, 2017 18:30 | October 5, 2017 21:15 | 2h 45m | 2,514 | 4,405 |
| 8 | July 8, 2017 21:30 | July 10, 2017 01:00 | 1d 3h | 2,324 | 10K |
| 9 | May 23, 2017 20:30 | May 24, 2017 22:45 | 1d 2h | 2,219 | 4,957 |
| 10 | January 22, 2017 21:15 | January 23, 2017 19:45 | 22h 30m | 1,929 | 6,317 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 113 reached 100+ customers, 25 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Cherokee 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 |
| Amicalola Electric Member Corp | 2017 | 50.9 hrs | 5.70 | 8.6 hrs | 3.40 |
| Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation | 2017 | 4.8 hrs | 1.88 | 78 min | 1.28 |
| Cobb Electric Membership Corp | 2017 | 3.8 hrs | 1.03 | 39 min | 0.52 |
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 ÷ 178,437 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. Cherokee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cherokee 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/cherokee-county