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2017 Houston County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Houston County, GA went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 536K customer-hours (Georgia average 14.2 hours). That ranks 132nd worst of 158 Georgia counties and 1025th 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 Houston 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 05:45 | September 16, 2017 03:15 | 4d 21h | 21,504 | 473K |
| 2 | January 21, 2017 17:30 | January 22, 2017 03:45 | 10h 15m | 4,866 | 5,877 |
| 3 | July 25, 2017 17:00 | July 25, 2017 23:45 | 6h 45m | 3,711 | 5,586 |
| 4 | April 23, 2017 18:45 | April 24, 2017 05:00 | 10h 15m | 2,279 | 3,315 |
| 5 | October 31, 2017 22:15 | November 1, 2017 00:00 | 1h 45m | 2,070 | 1,404 |
| 6 | August 6, 2017 10:15 | August 7, 2017 01:30 | 15h 15m | 1,850 | 2,701 |
| 7 | April 20, 2017 13:30 | April 20, 2017 16:30 | 3h | 1,448 | 678 |
| 8 | March 9, 2017 18:30 | March 9, 2017 20:15 | 1h 45m | 1,435 | 1,073 |
| 9 | April 3, 2017 14:45 | April 4, 2017 04:45 | 14h | 1,430 | 4,557 |
| 10 | April 16, 2017 05:45 | April 16, 2017 07:30 | 1h 45m | 1,167 | 589 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 61 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Houston 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 |
| Flint Electric Membership Corp | 2013 | 89 min | 1.24 | 89 min | 1.24 |
| Middle Georgia El 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 ÷ 118,038 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. Houston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Houston 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/houston-county