County annual report · FIPS 13261
2017 Sumter County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Sumter County, GA went without power for an average of 27.5 hours, a total of 384K customer-hours (Georgia average 14.2 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 158 Georgia counties and 194th 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 Sumter 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 08:30 | September 16, 2017 23:00 | 5d 14h | 10,452 | 355K |
| 2 | July 8, 2017 00:45 | July 8, 2017 10:30 | 9h 45m | 1,449 | 566 |
| 3 | April 24, 2017 21:45 | April 25, 2017 01:00 | 3h 15m | 1,123 | 436 |
| 4 | January 21, 2017 17:15 | January 24, 2017 17:00 | 2d 23h | 1,097 | 2,529 |
| 5 | January 3, 2017 14:00 | January 4, 2017 00:00 | 10h | 1,059 | 1,080 |
| 6 | June 16, 2017 00:30 | June 16, 2017 08:00 | 7h 30m | 986 | 1,626 |
| 7 | May 23, 2017 16:15 | May 23, 2017 20:15 | 4h | 906 | 1,247 |
| 8 | April 5, 2017 12:15 | April 6, 2017 01:30 | 13h 15m | 893 | 1,258 |
| 9 | August 8, 2017 00:00 | August 8, 2017 00:30 | 30m | 889 | 445 |
| 10 | May 20, 2017 19:15 | May 20, 2017 23:45 | 4h 30m | 722 | 1,621 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 33 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Sumter 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 |
| Flint Electric Membership Corp | 2013 | 89 min | 1.24 | 89 min | 1.24 |
| Sumter Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 13,979 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. Sumter County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sumter 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/sumter-county