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2017 Wilkes County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Wilkes County, GA went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 32K customer-hours (Georgia average 14.2 hours). That ranks 134th worst of 158 Georgia counties and 1071st 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 Wilkes 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 | August 7, 2017 05:30 | August 7, 2017 05:45 | 15m | 540 | 135 |
| 2 | September 11, 2017 15:45 | September 16, 2017 15:30 | 4d 23h | 488 | 22K |
| 3 | March 31, 2017 18:00 | March 31, 2017 18:30 | 30m | 432 | 216 |
| 4 | April 6, 2017 17:15 | April 6, 2017 19:45 | 2h 30m | 432 | 709 |
| 5 | May 29, 2017 21:30 | May 30, 2017 07:15 | 9h 45m | 387 | 2,721 |
| 6 | September 29, 2017 00:30 | September 29, 2017 10:00 | 9h 30m | 353 | 3,354 |
| 7 | September 6, 2017 02:00 | September 6, 2017 06:00 | 4h | 338 | 1,352 |
| 8 | December 29, 2017 12:45 | December 29, 2017 13:45 | 1h | 207 | 74 |
| 9 | April 6, 2017 20:30 | April 7, 2017 00:30 | 4h | 63 | 245 |
| 10 | May 5, 2017 09:30 | May 5, 2017 14:00 | 4h 30m | 62 | 261 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 8 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 Wilkes 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 |
| Rayle Electric Membership Corp | 2017 | 32.8 hrs | 3.77 | 3.8 hrs | 2.32 |
| City of Washington - (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 ÷ 7,535 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. Wilkes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wilkes 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/wilkes-county