County annual report · FIPS 13227
2018 Pickens County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Pickens County, GA went without power for an average of 9.9 hours, a total of 168K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.7 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 560th 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 Pickens 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 02:00 | July 23, 2018 22:15 | 2d 20h | 2,731 | 28K |
| 2 | December 8, 2018 19:00 | December 11, 2018 05:15 | 2d 10h | 2,473 | 59K |
| 3 | May 7, 2018 12:30 | May 7, 2018 21:15 | 8h 45m | 2,375 | 647 |
| 4 | April 4, 2018 06:15 | April 4, 2018 16:00 | 9h 45m | 1,466 | 6,445 |
| 5 | June 1, 2018 19:30 | June 2, 2018 02:00 | 6h 30m | 1,146 | 1,927 |
| 6 | May 10, 2018 20:45 | May 11, 2018 01:30 | 4h 45m | 999 | 1,034 |
| 7 | August 1, 2018 15:45 | August 1, 2018 21:15 | 5h 30m | 979 | 1,232 |
| 8 | December 1, 2018 16:30 | December 1, 2018 18:15 | 1h 45m | 961 | 1,443 |
| 9 | May 18, 2018 14:15 | May 18, 2018 17:00 | 2h 45m | 953 | 810 |
| 10 | February 28, 2018 17:00 | February 28, 2018 18:30 | 1h 30m | 947 | 1,184 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 66 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Pickens 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 |
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 ÷ 17,031 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. Pickens County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pickens 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/pickens-county