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2018 Houston County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Houston County, GA went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 272K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.7 hours). That ranks 112th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 1722nd 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 Houston 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 22:30 | October 13, 2018 19:45 | 2d 21h | 16,736 | 190K |
| 2 | July 16, 2018 15:30 | July 17, 2018 02:15 | 10h 45m | 4,156 | 3,001 |
| 3 | July 17, 2018 11:00 | July 17, 2018 16:00 | 5h | 3,492 | 882 |
| 4 | October 9, 2018 23:15 | October 10, 2018 01:15 | 2h | 2,767 | 3,438 |
| 5 | July 13, 2018 21:30 | July 14, 2018 02:15 | 4h 45m | 2,383 | 3,355 |
| 6 | August 9, 2018 22:00 | August 11, 2018 00:45 | 1d 2h | 2,181 | 4,980 |
| 7 | May 25, 2018 10:30 | May 25, 2018 12:15 | 1h 45m | 1,915 | 2,517 |
| 8 | September 13, 2018 21:15 | September 14, 2018 10:00 | 12h 45m | 1,597 | 3,331 |
| 9 | September 26, 2018 13:30 | September 27, 2018 08:15 | 18h 45m | 1,347 | 5,053 |
| 10 | May 18, 2018 18:15 | May 19, 2018 00:45 | 6h 30m | 1,006 | 1,462 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 77 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Houston 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 |
| Flint Electric Membership Corp | 2013 | 89 min | 1.24 | 89 min | 1.24 |
| Middle Georgia El 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 ÷ 118,038 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. Houston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Houston 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/houston-county