County annual report · FIPS 13073
2017 Columbia County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Columbia County, GA went without power for an average of 7.2 hours, a total of 483K customer-hours (Georgia average 14.2 hours). That ranks 109th worst of 158 Georgia counties and 734th 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 Columbia 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 02:45 | September 17, 2017 20:45 | 6d 18h | 14,958 | 419K |
| 2 | March 30, 2017 06:00 | March 30, 2017 07:00 | 1h | 9,042 | 7,309 |
| 3 | April 3, 2017 19:30 | April 4, 2017 16:30 | 21h | 3,981 | 7,769 |
| 4 | August 21, 2017 12:15 | August 21, 2017 21:15 | 9h | 1,663 | 844 |
| 5 | April 5, 2017 18:30 | April 6, 2017 05:00 | 10h 30m | 1,465 | 2,245 |
| 6 | July 21, 2017 00:30 | July 21, 2017 02:45 | 2h 15m | 1,436 | 492 |
| 7 | July 5, 2017 12:00 | July 6, 2017 08:00 | 20h | 1,336 | 3,425 |
| 8 | October 11, 2017 13:30 | October 11, 2017 15:00 | 1h 30m | 1,315 | 384 |
| 9 | March 10, 2017 11:15 | March 10, 2017 12:00 | 45m | 915 | 458 |
| 10 | January 15, 2017 02:00 | January 15, 2017 13:30 | 11h 30m | 913 | 925 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 69 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Columbia 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 |
| Jefferson Electric Member Corp | 2017 | 8.0 hrs | 1.69 | 86 min | 0.99 |
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 ÷ 66,977 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. Columbia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia 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/columbia-county