County annual report · FIPS 13295
2017 Walker County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Walker County, GA went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 195K customer-hours (Georgia average 14.2 hours). That ranks 128th worst of 158 Georgia counties and 968th 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 Walker 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 | March 21, 2017 23:15 | March 24, 2017 01:15 | 2d 2h | 8,410 | 87K |
| 2 | March 1, 2017 17:45 | March 2, 2017 10:30 | 16h 45m | 5,154 | 3,659 |
| 3 | June 5, 2017 02:30 | June 5, 2017 12:45 | 10h 15m | 4,930 | 4,665 |
| 4 | May 28, 2017 03:30 | May 28, 2017 19:00 | 15h 30m | 4,479 | 12K |
| 5 | March 14, 2017 04:45 | March 14, 2017 09:15 | 4h 30m | 3,621 | 6,597 |
| 6 | May 6, 2017 19:45 | May 7, 2017 03:00 | 7h 15m | 2,056 | 3,784 |
| 7 | April 29, 2017 23:00 | April 30, 2017 02:15 | 3h 15m | 2,017 | 2,034 |
| 8 | July 3, 2017 13:00 | July 4, 2017 01:15 | 12h 15m | 1,855 | 2,345 |
| 9 | January 23, 2017 00:45 | January 24, 2017 01:00 | 1d | 1,828 | 3,220 |
| 10 | June 14, 2017 10:45 | June 14, 2017 12:30 | 1h 45m | 1,602 | 2,392 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 64 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Walker 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 Chattanooga - (TN) | 2017 | 4.2 hrs | 1.41 | 64 min | 0.63 |
| North Georgia Elec Member Corp | 2017 | 6.1 hrs | 2.68 | 3.2 hrs | 2.12 |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Chickamauga | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of LaFayette - (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 ÷ 39,350 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. Walker County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Walker 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/walker-county