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2017 Forsyth County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Forsyth County, GA went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 185K customer-hours (Georgia average 14.2 hours). That ranks 152nd worst of 158 Georgia counties and 1882nd 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 Forsyth 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 | March 22, 2017 00:15 | March 23, 2017 02:00 | 1d 1h | 5,317 | 32K |
| 2 | September 11, 2017 17:30 | September 16, 2017 04:30 | 4d 11h | 3,468 | 114K |
| 3 | December 9, 2017 00:45 | December 10, 2017 04:00 | 1d 3h | 2,308 | 10K |
| 4 | November 19, 2017 03:30 | November 19, 2017 05:30 | 2h | 1,414 | 1,205 |
| 5 | April 5, 2017 13:00 | April 5, 2017 14:15 | 1h 15m | 1,133 | 942 |
| 6 | November 19, 2017 06:45 | November 19, 2017 07:30 | 45m | 1,088 | 816 |
| 7 | May 24, 2017 02:15 | May 24, 2017 12:00 | 9h 45m | 1,043 | 4,347 |
| 8 | December 7, 2017 13:15 | December 8, 2017 14:30 | 1d 1h | 859 | 820 |
| 9 | February 9, 2017 04:45 | February 9, 2017 07:00 | 2h 15m | 813 | 1,017 |
| 10 | September 7, 2017 18:15 | September 7, 2017 19:30 | 1h 15m | 798 | 650 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 36 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Forsyth 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 |
| City of Norcross- (GA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 134,644 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. Forsyth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Forsyth 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/forsyth-county