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2017 Hancock County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Hancock County, GA went without power for an average of 58.5 hours, a total of 261K customer-hours (Georgia average 14.2 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 158 Georgia counties and 49th 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 Hancock 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 11:30 | September 16, 2017 21:45 | 5d 10h | 3,249 | 239K |
| 2 | July 10, 2017 18:15 | July 10, 2017 20:00 | 1h 45m | 1,470 | 2,411 |
| 3 | January 11, 2017 17:30 | January 11, 2017 17:45 | 15m | 1,134 | 284 |
| 4 | January 20, 2017 17:45 | January 20, 2017 19:00 | 1h 15m | 1,134 | 1,009 |
| 5 | October 9, 2017 15:00 | October 9, 2017 18:30 | 3h 30m | 1,120 | 566 |
| 6 | March 22, 2017 01:00 | March 22, 2017 21:45 | 20h 45m | 769 | 7,641 |
| 7 | July 8, 2017 00:00 | July 8, 2017 09:45 | 9h 45m | 513 | 2,007 |
| 8 | December 8, 2017 17:15 | December 8, 2017 19:30 | 2h 15m | 313 | 592 |
| 9 | May 29, 2017 22:15 | May 30, 2017 01:45 | 3h 30m | 166 | 205 |
| 10 | January 21, 2017 17:00 | January 22, 2017 22:15 | 1d 5h | 165 | 3,245 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 16 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Hancock 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 |
| Rayle Electric Membership Corp | 2017 | 32.8 hrs | 3.77 | 3.8 hrs | 2.32 |
| Washington Elec Member Corp | 2017 | 37.0 hrs | - | 3.7 hrs | - |
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 ÷ 4,461 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. Hancock County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hancock 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/hancock-county