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2017 Richmond County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Richmond County, GA went without power for an average of 5.4 hours, a total of 630K customer-hours (Georgia average 14.2 hours). That ranks 126th worst of 158 Georgia counties and 918th 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 Richmond 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 17, 2017 15:15 | 6d 9h | 22,464 | 507K |
| 2 | April 3, 2017 17:00 | April 5, 2017 01:15 | 1d 8h | 7,917 | 33K |
| 3 | July 26, 2017 19:00 | July 27, 2017 04:00 | 9h | 3,125 | 5,199 |
| 4 | March 22, 2017 00:30 | March 23, 2017 00:45 | 1d | 2,235 | 2,909 |
| 5 | December 9, 2017 15:45 | December 9, 2017 19:00 | 3h 15m | 2,226 | 2,793 |
| 6 | July 15, 2017 18:45 | July 16, 2017 19:30 | 1d | 1,979 | 5,798 |
| 7 | May 25, 2017 03:15 | May 26, 2017 00:30 | 21h 15m | 1,834 | 1,821 |
| 8 | July 24, 2017 15:00 | July 25, 2017 00:15 | 9h 15m | 1,404 | 1,322 |
| 9 | May 16, 2017 11:30 | May 16, 2017 19:00 | 7h 30m | 1,396 | 1,148 |
| 10 | March 23, 2017 10:45 | March 24, 2017 00:30 | 13h 45m | 1,273 | 3,754 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 89 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Richmond 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 |
| Planters Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sylvania - (GA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 117,219 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. Richmond County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richmond 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/richmond-county