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2018 Cherokee County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Cherokee County, GA went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 214K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.7 hours). That ranks 139th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 2230th 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 Cherokee 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 | June 1, 2018 04:30 | June 2, 2018 09:15 | 1d 4h | 6,099 | 24K |
| 2 | July 21, 2018 09:45 | July 22, 2018 17:15 | 1d 7h | 6,077 | 14K |
| 3 | December 8, 2018 19:15 | December 10, 2018 07:30 | 1d 12h | 5,241 | 24K |
| 4 | April 13, 2018 01:30 | April 13, 2018 03:15 | 1h 45m | 3,789 | 3,798 |
| 5 | October 31, 2018 10:15 | October 31, 2018 23:15 | 13h | 3,685 | 1,002 |
| 6 | June 12, 2018 11:15 | June 12, 2018 21:15 | 10h | 2,758 | 1,232 |
| 7 | December 6, 2018 10:15 | December 6, 2018 22:00 | 11h 45m | 2,600 | 1,819 |
| 8 | September 9, 2018 17:00 | September 10, 2018 02:45 | 9h 45m | 2,586 | 2,184 |
| 9 | January 17, 2018 11:15 | January 17, 2018 13:30 | 2h 15m | 2,579 | 1,936 |
| 10 | May 4, 2018 09:30 | May 4, 2018 21:30 | 12h | 2,437 | 895 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 110 reached 100+ customers, 31 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 Cherokee 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 |
| Amicalola Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 15.5 hrs | 3.92 | 9.4 hrs | 3.56 |
| Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation | 2018 | 72 min | 1.05 | 48 min | 0.88 |
| Cobb Electric Membership Corp | 2018 | 31 min | 0.50 | 31 min | 0.50 |
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 ÷ 178,437 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. Cherokee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cherokee 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/cherokee-county