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2018 Dawson County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Dawson County, GA went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 52K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.7 hours). That ranks 105th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 1587th 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 Dawson 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 | May 7, 2018 19:30 | May 7, 2018 20:15 | 45m | 6,478 | 1,623 |
| 2 | July 21, 2018 08:00 | July 22, 2018 14:30 | 1d 6h | 2,868 | 8,290 |
| 3 | June 1, 2018 04:30 | June 1, 2018 18:30 | 14h | 1,297 | 1,797 |
| 4 | November 12, 2018 16:15 | November 13, 2018 02:00 | 9h 45m | 1,182 | 2,166 |
| 5 | June 1, 2018 20:00 | June 2, 2018 11:15 | 15h 15m | 1,031 | 3,595 |
| 6 | May 29, 2018 23:45 | May 30, 2018 16:30 | 16h 45m | 796 | 794 |
| 7 | April 4, 2018 06:45 | April 4, 2018 16:00 | 9h 15m | 617 | 1,745 |
| 8 | June 25, 2018 18:15 | June 26, 2018 01:30 | 7h 15m | 579 | 1,356 |
| 9 | January 1, 2018 12:15 | January 1, 2018 23:00 | 10h 45m | 526 | 2,300 |
| 10 | August 1, 2018 20:45 | August 2, 2018 01:45 | 5h | 517 | 854 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 46 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Dawson 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 |
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 ÷ 18,801 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. Dawson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dawson 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/dawson-county