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2017 Whitfield County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Whitfield County, GA went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 198K customer-hours (Georgia average 14.2 hours). That ranks 146th worst of 158 Georgia counties and 1393rd 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 Whitfield 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 19:45 | March 23, 2017 22:00 | 2d 2h | 10,183 | 96K |
| 2 | May 24, 2017 11:00 | May 25, 2017 03:45 | 16h 45m | 2,455 | 7,692 |
| 3 | May 29, 2017 05:15 | May 29, 2017 06:15 | 1h | 2,341 | 2,027 |
| 4 | January 22, 2017 22:45 | January 24, 2017 02:00 | 1d 3h | 2,322 | 21K |
| 5 | March 1, 2017 14:15 | March 2, 2017 05:45 | 15h 30m | 2,234 | 2,712 |
| 6 | August 4, 2017 17:30 | August 4, 2017 21:00 | 3h 30m | 1,287 | 972 |
| 7 | August 6, 2017 18:30 | August 7, 2017 00:45 | 6h 15m | 1,248 | 1,322 |
| 8 | June 20, 2017 14:00 | June 20, 2017 22:45 | 8h 45m | 1,102 | 841 |
| 9 | May 23, 2017 06:45 | May 23, 2017 12:30 | 5h 45m | 1,084 | 2,114 |
| 10 | October 8, 2017 09:15 | October 9, 2017 21:00 | 1d 11h | 1,034 | 3,112 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 58 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Whitfield 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 |
| North Georgia Elec Member Corp | 2017 | 6.1 hrs | 2.68 | 3.2 hrs | 2.12 |
| Dalton Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 71,130 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. Whitfield County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Whitfield 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/whitfield-county