County annual report · FIPS 13089
2018 DeKalb County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in DeKalb County, GA went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 826K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.7 hours). That ranks 82nd worst of 157 Georgia counties and 1133rd 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 DeKalb 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 | July 21, 2018 08:30 | July 26, 2018 01:00 | 4d 16h | 12,528 | 67K |
| 2 | August 27, 2018 12:30 | August 28, 2018 03:00 | 14h 30m | 12,454 | 3,918 |
| 3 | January 1, 2018 00:00 | January 9, 2018 04:45 | 8d 4h | 11,232 | 35K |
| 4 | October 10, 2018 07:00 | October 13, 2018 01:15 | 2d 18h | 10,603 | 31K |
| 5 | July 31, 2018 12:15 | August 11, 2018 06:45 | 10d 18h | 10,057 | 101K |
| 6 | March 19, 2018 23:00 | March 21, 2018 11:15 | 1d 12h | 6,270 | 18K |
| 7 | June 16, 2018 23:00 | June 18, 2018 02:30 | 1d 3h | 5,022 | 9,810 |
| 8 | December 8, 2018 08:15 | December 11, 2018 08:45 | 3d | 3,772 | 33K |
| 9 | May 28, 2018 18:30 | June 4, 2018 22:45 | 7d 4h | 3,695 | 25K |
| 10 | November 9, 2018 12:45 | November 10, 2018 11:45 | 23h | 3,621 | 4,941 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 191 reached 100+ customers, 87 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 DeKalb 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 |
| Walton Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 1.92 | 1.8 hrs | 1.50 |
| Snapping Shoals El Member Corp | 2018 | 63 min | 0.86 | 63 min | 0.86 |
| City of Norcross- (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 ÷ 182,341 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. DeKalb County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), DeKalb 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/dekalb-county