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2017 Polk County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Polk County, GA went without power for an average of 23.6 hours, a total of 452K customer-hours (Georgia average 14.2 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 158 Georgia counties and 229th 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 Polk 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 | December 8, 2017 14:45 | December 12, 2017 23:15 | 4d 8h | 10,586 | 354K |
| 2 | June 15, 2017 21:00 | June 16, 2017 22:00 | 1d 1h | 2,801 | 17K |
| 3 | October 8, 2017 09:30 | October 9, 2017 18:00 | 1d 8h | 2,266 | 15K |
| 4 | September 3, 2017 08:15 | September 3, 2017 13:30 | 5h 15m | 1,567 | 2,881 |
| 5 | August 9, 2017 01:45 | August 9, 2017 02:45 | 1h | 1,427 | 1,426 |
| 6 | May 22, 2017 01:45 | May 22, 2017 05:00 | 3h 15m | 1,355 | 1,641 |
| 7 | January 22, 2017 22:30 | January 24, 2017 05:30 | 1d 7h | 1,308 | 5,245 |
| 8 | April 5, 2017 21:15 | April 6, 2017 08:00 | 10h 45m | 1,295 | 2,164 |
| 9 | March 7, 2017 23:30 | March 8, 2017 09:00 | 9h 30m | 1,269 | 1,818 |
| 10 | July 14, 2017 18:15 | July 15, 2017 03:15 | 9h | 1,228 | 1,641 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 69 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Polk 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 |
| Carroll Electric Member Corp - (GA) | 2017 | 9.4 hrs | 2.52 | 2.1 hrs | 1.45 |
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 ÷ 19,098 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county