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2017 Fulton County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Fulton County, GA went without power for an average of 16.4 hours, a total of 6.3M customer-hours (Georgia average 14.2 hours). That ranks 67th worst of 158 Georgia counties and 339th 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 Fulton 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 03:15 | September 25, 2017 01:15 | 13d 22h | 136,320 | 4.3M |
| 2 | December 7, 2017 11:45 | December 15, 2017 00:00 | 7d 12h | 32,850 | 641K |
| 3 | March 21, 2017 11:00 | March 24, 2017 06:30 | 2d 19h | 31,128 | 210K |
| 4 | June 13, 2017 11:00 | June 27, 2017 07:00 | 13d 20h | 17,225 | 136K |
| 5 | May 1, 2017 13:30 | May 5, 2017 09:00 | 3d 19h | 10,054 | 30K |
| 6 | January 6, 2017 20:00 | January 11, 2017 05:00 | 4d 9h | 9,948 | 76K |
| 7 | July 18, 2017 10:30 | July 31, 2017 01:00 | 12d 14h | 8,709 | 56K |
| 8 | April 5, 2017 12:30 | April 9, 2017 02:00 | 3d 13h | 7,485 | 42K |
| 9 | May 27, 2017 20:30 | May 31, 2017 07:30 | 3d 11h | 7,301 | 64K |
| 10 | March 9, 2017 13:30 | March 11, 2017 23:15 | 2d 9h | 7,027 | 27K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 164 reached 100+ customers, 87 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 Fulton 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 |
| Coweta-Fayette El Member Corp | 2017 | 13.0 hrs | 1.94 | 1.8 hrs | 0.95 |
| GreyStone Power Corporation | 2017 | 20.5 hrs | 2.71 | 1.5 hrs | 1.18 |
| 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 |
| City of College Park - (GA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Palmetto - (GA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of East Point - (GA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fairburn - (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 ÷ 383,737 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. Fulton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fulton 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/fulton-county