County annual report · FIPS 13241
2017 Rabun County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Rabun County, GA went without power for an average of 97.1 hours, a total of 982K customer-hours (Georgia average 14.2 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 158 Georgia counties and 14th 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 Rabun 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 15:45 | September 19, 2017 01:45 | 7d 10h | 10,574 | 788K |
| 2 | December 8, 2017 16:00 | December 12, 2017 21:30 | 4d 5h | 5,868 | 125K |
| 3 | October 8, 2017 18:15 | October 9, 2017 19:45 | 1d 1h | 2,140 | 3,927 |
| 4 | July 23, 2017 21:30 | July 24, 2017 05:30 | 8h | 2,130 | 1,488 |
| 5 | May 1, 2017 12:15 | May 1, 2017 23:00 | 10h 45m | 1,695 | 2,471 |
| 6 | August 7, 2017 22:30 | August 8, 2017 02:30 | 4h | 1,246 | 744 |
| 7 | December 25, 2017 05:00 | December 25, 2017 18:45 | 13h 45m | 1,155 | 5,426 |
| 8 | January 8, 2017 11:15 | January 8, 2017 12:30 | 1h 15m | 1,028 | 1,029 |
| 9 | April 19, 2017 05:30 | April 19, 2017 10:30 | 5h | 926 | 1,039 |
| 10 | February 3, 2017 21:00 | February 3, 2017 23:30 | 2h 30m | 911 | 2,278 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 73 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Rabun 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 |
| Haywood Electric Member Corp | 2017 | 28.4 hrs | 5.16 | 7.7 hrs | 3.76 |
| Habersham Electric Membership Corp | 2017 | 96.7 hrs | 5.69 | 3.2 hrs | 2.49 |
| Habersham Electric Membership Corp,habershamemc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 10,115 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. Rabun County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rabun 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/rabun-county