County annual report · FIPS 13275
2017 Thomas County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Thomas County, GA went without power for an average of 6.5 hours, a total of 235K customer-hours (Georgia average 14.2 hours). That ranks 116th worst of 158 Georgia counties and 810th 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 Thomas 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 03:45 | September 15, 2017 23:30 | 4d 19h | 7,969 | 190K |
| 2 | January 22, 2017 08:00 | January 24, 2017 12:45 | 2d 4h | 1,771 | 24K |
| 3 | September 20, 2017 21:30 | September 21, 2017 00:45 | 3h 15m | 774 | 1,091 |
| 4 | July 12, 2017 23:00 | July 13, 2017 02:15 | 3h 15m | 446 | 653 |
| 5 | July 16, 2017 17:15 | July 16, 2017 20:15 | 3h | 403 | 209 |
| 6 | February 8, 2017 00:15 | February 8, 2017 19:30 | 19h 15m | 380 | 4,970 |
| 7 | July 13, 2017 21:15 | July 14, 2017 06:30 | 9h 15m | 334 | 1,007 |
| 8 | October 12, 2017 12:30 | October 12, 2017 15:00 | 2h 30m | 316 | 470 |
| 9 | April 27, 2017 16:15 | April 27, 2017 19:30 | 3h 15m | 308 | 279 |
| 10 | March 26, 2017 00:30 | March 26, 2017 01:45 | 1h 15m | 293 | 366 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 27 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Thomas 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 |
| City of Thomasville - (GA) | 2017 | 17.3 hrs | 2.36 | 1.7 hrs | 0.85 |
| Mitchell Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Colquitt Electric Membership Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grady Electric Membership 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 ÷ 36,396 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. Thomas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Thomas 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/thomas-county