County annual report · FIPS 13227
2017 Pickens County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Pickens County, GA went without power for an average of 33.4 hours, a total of 568K customer-hours (Georgia average 14.2 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 158 Georgia counties and 147th 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 Pickens 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 10, 2017 10:00 | September 17, 2017 01:15 | 6d 15h | 9,146 | 286K |
| 2 | March 21, 2017 21:30 | March 23, 2017 22:45 | 2d 1h | 7,653 | 99K |
| 3 | January 22, 2017 19:45 | January 24, 2017 03:30 | 1d 7h | 4,316 | 19K |
| 4 | December 8, 2017 14:30 | December 10, 2017 03:00 | 1d 12h | 3,072 | 58K |
| 5 | September 5, 2017 20:00 | September 6, 2017 22:15 | 1d 2h | 2,255 | 11K |
| 6 | December 10, 2017 03:45 | December 10, 2017 14:00 | 10h 15m | 1,745 | 17K |
| 7 | July 15, 2017 15:00 | July 15, 2017 20:30 | 5h 30m | 1,441 | 1,646 |
| 8 | July 1, 2017 21:30 | July 3, 2017 01:45 | 1d 4h | 1,321 | 6,265 |
| 9 | December 10, 2017 15:15 | December 11, 2017 18:30 | 1d 3h | 1,248 | 9,293 |
| 10 | May 4, 2017 11:45 | May 5, 2017 09:15 | 21h 30m | 1,245 | 6,987 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 53 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Pickens 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 |
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 ÷ 17,031 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. Pickens County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pickens 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/pickens-county