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2018 Fulton County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Fulton County, GA went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (Georgia average 4.7 hours). That ranks 93rd worst of 157 Georgia counties and 1397th 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 Fulton 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 | March 20, 2018 01:30 | March 22, 2018 05:00 | 2d 3h | 17,870 | 108K |
| 2 | October 9, 2018 12:45 | October 13, 2018 03:00 | 3d 14h | 9,961 | 63K |
| 3 | August 7, 2018 09:00 | August 12, 2018 19:15 | 5d 10h | 9,921 | 68K |
| 4 | July 19, 2018 00:15 | July 26, 2018 22:45 | 7d 22h | 9,437 | 70K |
| 5 | June 27, 2018 00:00 | July 1, 2018 08:00 | 4d 8h | 8,087 | 31K |
| 6 | November 11, 2018 14:45 | November 17, 2018 06:45 | 5d 16h | 8,073 | 48K |
| 7 | April 22, 2018 11:45 | April 26, 2018 05:15 | 3d 17h | 6,944 | 63K |
| 8 | April 4, 2018 04:15 | April 6, 2018 17:15 | 2d 13h | 6,327 | 14K |
| 9 | March 31, 2018 17:45 | April 2, 2018 07:30 | 1d 13h | 5,687 | 5,444 |
| 10 | November 29, 2018 10:15 | November 30, 2018 05:00 | 18h 45m | 5,606 | 5,861 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 174 reached 100+ customers, 96 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 Fulton 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 |
| Coweta-Fayette El Member Corp | 2018 | 2.0 hrs | 1.32 | 1.7 hrs | 1.22 |
| GreyStone Power Corporation | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 1.50 | 1.7 hrs | 1.31 |
| Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation | 2018 | 72 min | 1.05 | 48 min | 0.88 |
| Cobb Electric Membership Corp | 2018 | 31 min | 0.50 | 31 min | 0.50 |
| City of College Park - (GA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Palmetto - (GA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of East Point - (GA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fairburn - (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 ÷ 383,737 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. Fulton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fulton 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/fulton-county