County annual report · FIPS 13083
2018 Dade County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Dade County, GA went without power for an average of 7.0 hours, a total of 54K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.7 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 783rd 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 Dade 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 | December 1, 2018 07:15 | December 2, 2018 21:15 | 1d 14h | 3,155 | 9,246 |
| 2 | March 27, 2018 15:00 | March 27, 2018 16:30 | 1h 30m | 2,150 | 1,075 |
| 3 | March 20, 2018 02:00 | March 20, 2018 19:30 | 17h 30m | 2,034 | 1,993 |
| 4 | April 22, 2018 21:30 | April 23, 2018 21:30 | 1d | 1,919 | 9,888 |
| 5 | July 17, 2018 13:15 | July 17, 2018 14:30 | 1h 15m | 1,872 | 1,405 |
| 6 | December 9, 2018 05:15 | December 10, 2018 03:15 | 22h | 1,210 | 9,498 |
| 7 | August 3, 2018 01:30 | August 3, 2018 03:15 | 1h 45m | 933 | 238 |
| 8 | November 24, 2018 03:15 | November 24, 2018 09:45 | 6h 30m | 719 | 2,650 |
| 9 | September 26, 2018 16:15 | September 26, 2018 20:15 | 4h | 713 | 225 |
| 10 | April 4, 2018 05:30 | April 4, 2018 14:00 | 8h 30m | 669 | 1,891 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 26 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Dade 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 |
| City of Chattanooga - (TN) | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 1.00 | 77 min | 0.66 |
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 ÷ 7,648 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. Dade County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dade 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/dade-county