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2017 Jefferson County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Jefferson County, GA went without power for an average of 18.9 hours, a total of 166K customer-hours (Georgia average 14.2 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 158 Georgia counties and 289th 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 Jefferson 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 09:30 | September 17, 2017 08:30 | 5d 23h | 4,900 | 136K |
| 2 | April 3, 2017 16:30 | April 4, 2017 15:15 | 22h 45m | 1,151 | 3,514 |
| 3 | March 22, 2017 02:30 | March 22, 2017 21:00 | 18h 30m | 1,097 | 6,094 |
| 4 | September 2, 2017 09:45 | September 2, 2017 16:00 | 6h 15m | 1,097 | 3,752 |
| 5 | June 16, 2017 01:45 | June 16, 2017 08:30 | 6h 45m | 707 | 1,921 |
| 6 | January 22, 2017 21:45 | January 23, 2017 04:00 | 6h 15m | 608 | 1,025 |
| 7 | April 25, 2017 15:00 | April 25, 2017 15:30 | 30m | 604 | 152 |
| 8 | January 24, 2017 19:00 | January 24, 2017 19:15 | 15m | 471 | 118 |
| 9 | September 30, 2017 23:15 | September 30, 2017 23:45 | 30m | 356 | 171 |
| 10 | April 24, 2017 09:30 | April 24, 2017 13:00 | 3h 30m | 343 | 857 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 22 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Jefferson 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 |
| Jefferson Electric Member Corp | 2017 | 8.0 hrs | 1.69 | 86 min | 0.99 |
| 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 ÷ 8,747 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. Jefferson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jefferson 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/jefferson-county