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2017 Effingham County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Effingham County, GA went without power for an average of 14.1 hours, a total of 384K customer-hours (Georgia average 14.2 hours). That ranks 78th worst of 158 Georgia counties and 394th 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 Effingham 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 06:15 | September 16, 2017 17:30 | 5d 11h | 12,146 | 329K |
| 2 | May 13, 2017 13:15 | May 13, 2017 20:30 | 7h 15m | 3,024 | 1,052 |
| 3 | July 9, 2017 23:45 | July 10, 2017 15:00 | 15h 15m | 2,583 | 5,365 |
| 4 | May 30, 2017 16:00 | May 31, 2017 01:00 | 9h | 2,562 | 1,977 |
| 5 | October 1, 2017 10:45 | October 1, 2017 14:30 | 3h 45m | 1,886 | 1,266 |
| 6 | July 19, 2017 22:30 | July 20, 2017 10:30 | 12h | 1,797 | 1,484 |
| 7 | July 3, 2017 22:45 | July 4, 2017 02:30 | 3h 45m | 1,357 | 841 |
| 8 | March 22, 2017 04:15 | March 22, 2017 09:15 | 5h | 1,337 | 747 |
| 9 | June 20, 2017 21:00 | June 20, 2017 22:15 | 1h 15m | 1,312 | 986 |
| 10 | September 24, 2017 11:30 | September 24, 2017 18:00 | 6h 30m | 1,301 | 1,874 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 51 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Effingham 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 |
| Excelsior Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Planters 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 ÷ 27,148 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. Effingham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Effingham 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/effingham-county