County annual report · FIPS 13087
2018 Decatur County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Decatur County, GA went without power for an average of 109.6 hours, a total of 1.7M customer-hours (Georgia average 4.7 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 45th 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 Decatur 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 13:15 | October 24, 2018 00:45 | 13d 11h | 13,136 | 1.7M |
| 2 | July 21, 2018 16:45 | July 23, 2018 23:45 | 2d 7h | 2,513 | 22K |
| 3 | April 15, 2018 12:30 | April 16, 2018 00:45 | 12h 15m | 1,981 | 5,893 |
| 4 | March 20, 2018 19:00 | March 21, 2018 03:15 | 8h 15m | 1,222 | 1,755 |
| 5 | July 3, 2018 22:15 | July 4, 2018 09:15 | 11h | 1,128 | 2,188 |
| 6 | October 30, 2018 12:45 | October 30, 2018 14:30 | 1h 45m | 956 | 250 |
| 7 | August 21, 2018 15:30 | August 21, 2018 17:45 | 2h 15m | 879 | 511 |
| 8 | January 7, 2018 05:00 | January 7, 2018 15:15 | 10h 15m | 729 | 1,045 |
| 9 | May 1, 2018 20:30 | May 2, 2018 00:00 | 3h 30m | 720 | 723 |
| 10 | November 30, 2018 14:45 | November 30, 2018 22:15 | 7h 30m | 719 | 372 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 66 reached 100+ customers, 5 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Decatur 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 |
| Grady Electric Membership Corp | 2018 | 2.2 hrs | 7.01 | - | - |
| Mitchell Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Three Notch Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Brinson - (GA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,925 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. Decatur County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Decatur 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/decatur-county