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2017 Gilmer County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Gilmer County, GA went without power for an average of 45.7 hours, a total of 778K customer-hours (Georgia average 14.2 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 158 Georgia counties and 90th 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 Gilmer 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 18:00 | September 17, 2017 14:45 | 5d 20h | 8,364 | 254K |
| 2 | May 4, 2017 11:00 | May 7, 2017 04:00 | 2d 17h | 6,547 | 56K |
| 3 | December 8, 2017 12:15 | December 12, 2017 04:15 | 3d 16h | 6,320 | 192K |
| 4 | March 21, 2017 20:15 | March 23, 2017 23:15 | 2d 3h | 5,028 | 67K |
| 5 | April 24, 2017 22:30 | April 25, 2017 00:00 | 1h 30m | 3,366 | 3,542 |
| 6 | July 5, 2017 19:30 | July 6, 2017 22:45 | 1d 3h | 3,184 | 15K |
| 7 | May 1, 2017 08:15 | May 2, 2017 05:00 | 20h 45m | 3,128 | 7,648 |
| 8 | July 1, 2017 14:45 | July 3, 2017 08:00 | 1d 17h | 3,014 | 30K |
| 9 | March 10, 2017 08:00 | March 10, 2017 23:00 | 15h | 2,673 | 16K |
| 10 | December 13, 2017 14:30 | December 13, 2017 23:45 | 9h 15m | 2,285 | 4,043 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 106 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 Gilmer 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 |
| Blue Ridge Mountain EMC - (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 ÷ 17,004 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. Gilmer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gilmer 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/gilmer-county