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2018 Burke County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Burke County, GA went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 67K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.7 hours). That ranks 84th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 1234th 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 Burke 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 11, 2018 02:00 | October 13, 2018 15:45 | 2d 13h | 4,311 | 46K |
| 2 | July 27, 2018 16:30 | July 27, 2018 17:30 | 1h | 1,198 | 1,198 |
| 3 | June 30, 2018 20:15 | July 1, 2018 00:15 | 4h | 1,067 | 3,321 |
| 4 | July 3, 2018 16:45 | July 4, 2018 03:00 | 10h 15m | 987 | 3,257 |
| 5 | September 25, 2018 02:45 | September 25, 2018 04:45 | 2h | 964 | 269 |
| 6 | August 6, 2018 18:00 | August 6, 2018 22:45 | 4h 45m | 953 | 911 |
| 7 | March 1, 2018 20:30 | March 2, 2018 03:30 | 7h | 896 | 2,117 |
| 8 | October 2, 2018 22:15 | October 3, 2018 01:00 | 2h 45m | 826 | 1,444 |
| 9 | April 16, 2018 15:45 | April 16, 2018 21:15 | 5h 30m | 785 | 424 |
| 10 | September 15, 2018 18:15 | September 16, 2018 00:45 | 6h 30m | 694 | 921 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 21 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 Burke 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 |
| Jefferson Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 4.7 hrs | 1.82 | 2.0 hrs | 1.48 |
| Excelsior Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Planters Electric 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 90% of Georgia's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 16,403 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. Burke County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Burke 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/burke-county