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2018 Effingham County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Effingham County, GA went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 75K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.7 hours). That ranks 104th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 1582nd 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 Effingham 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 | August 14, 2018 00:15 | August 14, 2018 07:45 | 7h 30m | 2,730 | 6,951 |
| 2 | August 14, 2018 10:15 | August 14, 2018 16:00 | 5h 45m | 2,716 | 2,727 |
| 3 | July 23, 2018 13:15 | July 24, 2018 00:00 | 10h 45m | 2,623 | 2,712 |
| 4 | June 14, 2018 20:30 | June 15, 2018 02:30 | 6h | 1,956 | 2,668 |
| 5 | October 11, 2018 03:45 | October 13, 2018 11:15 | 2d 7h | 1,595 | 16K |
| 6 | July 16, 2018 18:00 | July 16, 2018 18:45 | 45m | 1,593 | 797 |
| 7 | January 2, 2018 06:15 | January 2, 2018 21:00 | 14h 45m | 1,531 | 2,724 |
| 8 | September 29, 2018 15:45 | September 29, 2018 19:15 | 3h 30m | 1,317 | 1,322 |
| 9 | October 10, 2018 02:30 | October 10, 2018 15:30 | 13h | 1,289 | 1,817 |
| 10 | June 3, 2018 07:15 | June 3, 2018 15:15 | 8h | 1,209 | 2,135 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 39 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Effingham 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 |
| Excelsior Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Planters Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 27,148 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. Effingham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Effingham 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/effingham-county