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2018 Gilmer County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Gilmer County, GA went without power for an average of 35.8 hours, a total of 608K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.7 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 167th 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 Gilmer 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 07:00 | July 26, 2018 03:00 | 4d 20h | 11,796 | 413K |
| 2 | January 13, 2018 06:30 | January 13, 2018 07:45 | 1h 15m | 3,376 | 3,553 |
| 3 | April 22, 2018 23:15 | April 23, 2018 23:30 | 1d | 2,023 | 19K |
| 4 | July 6, 2018 16:30 | July 7, 2018 03:00 | 10h 30m | 2,018 | 5,839 |
| 5 | September 28, 2018 01:30 | September 28, 2018 21:00 | 19h 30m | 2,018 | 13K |
| 6 | August 2, 2018 09:30 | August 3, 2018 05:30 | 20h | 1,886 | 4,289 |
| 7 | June 23, 2018 12:00 | June 24, 2018 07:45 | 19h 45m | 1,872 | 12K |
| 8 | August 1, 2018 11:30 | August 2, 2018 08:30 | 21h | 1,853 | 3,883 |
| 9 | October 21, 2018 04:45 | October 21, 2018 20:00 | 15h 15m | 1,831 | 4,431 |
| 10 | December 28, 2018 18:30 | December 28, 2018 18:45 | 15m | 1,825 | 456 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 101 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Gilmer 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 |
| Blue Ridge Mountain EMC - (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 ÷ 17,004 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. Gilmer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gilmer 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/gilmer-county