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2017 Dawson County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Dawson County, GA went without power for an average of 22.0 hours, a total of 414K customer-hours (Georgia average 14.2 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 158 Georgia counties and 250th 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 Dawson 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 15:00 | September 17, 2017 07:00 | 5d 16h | 5,407 | 297K |
| 2 | March 21, 2017 20:30 | March 23, 2017 23:45 | 2d 3h | 4,361 | 50K |
| 3 | December 8, 2017 13:30 | December 11, 2017 23:15 | 3d 9h | 1,469 | 24K |
| 4 | July 18, 2017 21:00 | July 19, 2017 02:15 | 5h 15m | 1,411 | 3,707 |
| 5 | October 28, 2017 22:15 | October 29, 2017 05:45 | 7h 30m | 1,396 | 10K |
| 6 | September 28, 2017 06:45 | September 28, 2017 09:30 | 2h 45m | 1,132 | 3,113 |
| 7 | June 2, 2017 14:30 | June 2, 2017 17:00 | 2h 30m | 946 | 550 |
| 8 | December 18, 2017 11:30 | December 18, 2017 16:45 | 5h 15m | 607 | 1,361 |
| 9 | February 13, 2017 03:30 | February 13, 2017 05:30 | 2h | 598 | 1,196 |
| 10 | January 24, 2017 00:15 | January 24, 2017 02:45 | 2h 30m | 576 | 726 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 35 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 Dawson 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 |
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 ÷ 18,801 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. Dawson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dawson 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/dawson-county