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2017 Wheeler County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Wheeler County, GA went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (Georgia average 14.2 hours). That ranks 130th worst of 158 Georgia counties and 1011th 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 Wheeler 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 09:00 | September 15, 2017 14:45 | 4d 5h | 665 | 23K |
| 2 | January 3, 2017 06:00 | January 3, 2017 07:00 | 1h | 358 | 358 |
| 3 | February 11, 2017 15:15 | February 11, 2017 16:45 | 1h 30m | 99 | 149 |
| 4 | April 3, 2017 18:15 | April 3, 2017 20:45 | 2h 30m | 50 | 63 |
| 5 | June 29, 2017 22:15 | June 30, 2017 02:15 | 4h | 49 | 16 |
| 6 | September 1, 2017 19:00 | September 1, 2017 22:30 | 3h 30m | 30 | 76 |
| 7 | January 2, 2017 13:30 | January 2, 2017 14:15 | 45m | 22 | 16 |
| 8 | May 3, 2017 13:30 | May 3, 2017 14:45 | 1h 15m | 12 | 15 |
| 9 | October 3, 2017 12:15 | October 3, 2017 14:00 | 1h 45m | 12 | 21 |
| 10 | December 20, 2017 14:00 | December 20, 2017 15:30 | 1h 30m | 12 | 18 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 2 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Wheeler 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 |
| Little Ocmulgee El 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 ÷ 5,211 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. Wheeler County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wheeler 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/wheeler-county