County annual report · FIPS 13175
2018 Laurens County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Laurens County, GA went without power for an average of 15.5 hours, a total of 378K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.7 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 356th 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 Laurens 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 11, 2018 01:30 | October 14, 2018 06:15 | 3d 4h | 10,021 | 357K |
| 2 | July 31, 2018 04:30 | July 31, 2018 05:00 | 30m | 1,247 | 623 |
| 3 | August 11, 2018 03:00 | August 11, 2018 06:30 | 3h 30m | 1,033 | 398 |
| 4 | December 2, 2018 02:30 | December 2, 2018 03:15 | 45m | 838 | 210 |
| 5 | August 21, 2018 14:00 | August 21, 2018 19:45 | 5h 45m | 784 | 764 |
| 6 | November 16, 2018 14:00 | November 16, 2018 19:45 | 5h 45m | 672 | 1,277 |
| 7 | March 2, 2018 13:45 | March 2, 2018 20:00 | 6h 15m | 630 | 338 |
| 8 | May 23, 2018 20:45 | May 24, 2018 03:00 | 6h 15m | 608 | 546 |
| 9 | June 16, 2018 23:00 | June 17, 2018 10:45 | 11h 45m | 500 | 1,061 |
| 10 | May 21, 2018 18:45 | May 21, 2018 22:30 | 3h 45m | 438 | 662 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 27 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Laurens 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 |
| Washington Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 23.8 hrs | - | 7.5 hrs | - |
| Altamaha Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 16.5 hrs | 2.42 | 43 min | 0.71 |
| Oconee Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Little Ocmulgee El Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ocmulgee 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 ÷ 24,434 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. Laurens County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Laurens 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/laurens-county