County annual report · FIPS 13017
2018 Ben Hill County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Ben Hill County, GA went without power for an average of 12.6 hours, a total of 184K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.7 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 437th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with GA, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Georgia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ben Hill County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 10, 2018 21:45 | October 15, 2018 22:45 | 5d 1h | 3,146 | 129K |
| 2 | July 24, 2018 15:45 | July 24, 2018 19:00 | 3h 15m | 1,157 | 1,456 |
| 3 | November 2, 2018 12:45 | November 2, 2018 20:45 | 8h | 1,062 | 1,543 |
| 4 | July 23, 2018 00:30 | July 23, 2018 09:30 | 9h | 712 | 1,434 |
| 5 | October 26, 2018 18:30 | October 26, 2018 20:15 | 1h 45m | 665 | 665 |
| 6 | November 23, 2018 23:15 | November 24, 2018 11:15 | 12h | 664 | 7,968 |
| 7 | November 24, 2018 12:15 | November 26, 2018 14:45 | 2d 2h | 664 | 32K |
| 8 | January 30, 2018 22:45 | January 31, 2018 00:00 | 1h 15m | 658 | 658 |
| 9 | June 12, 2018 13:30 | June 12, 2018 15:45 | 2h 15m | 416 | 936 |
| 10 | January 22, 2018 19:45 | January 22, 2018 22:30 | 2h 45m | 389 | 431 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 25 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Ben Hill County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 3.8 hrs | 1.48 | 2.1 hrs | 1.21 |
| Satilla Rural Elec Member Corporation | - | - | - | - | - |
| Irwin Electric Membership Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Middle Georgia El Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Fitzgerald Wtr Lgt & Bond Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 90% of Georgia's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 14,643 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. Ben Hill County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ben Hill County, GA annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/georgia/ben-hill-county