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County annual report · FIPS 13229

2018 Pierce County, GA Power Outage Report

In 2018, customers in Pierce County, GA went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 35K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.7 hours). That ranks 94th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 1400th of 2,798 nationally.

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Avg hrs / customer
3.4
10,427 customers
Customer-hours out
35K
Peak customers out
1,411
Outages ≥1,000 out
4
0 of 10,000+ · 628 total
Longest outage
18h 30m
began October 11, 2018
Rank in state
94th/157
1400th of 2,798 US

Compared with GA, the US and 2017

Pierce County, GA average hours without power per customer compared with state and national averages, 2018Pierce County 3.4 hours, Georgia average 4.7 hours, US average 5.6 hours, Pierce County, 2017 25.5 hoursPierce CountyPierce County3.4hGeorgia averageGeorgia average4.7hUS averageUS average5.6hPierce County, 2017Pierce County, 201725.5h
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Average hours without power per customer in 2018; last bar is this county in 2017.

Month by month

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Pierce County, GA customer-hours without power by month, 2018Jan 1,508, Feb 118, Mar 3,259, Apr 594, May 3,423, Jun 1,915, Jul 6,278, Aug 9,340, Sep 2,166, Oct 3,181, Nov 814, Dec 2,69602.5k5k7.5k10k1,508Jan118Feb3,259Mar594Apr3,423May1,915Jun6,278Jul9,340Aug2,166Sep3,181Oct814Nov2,696Dec
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Customer-hours; August was the worst month.

Pierce County year over year

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Pierce County, GA: average hours without power per customer by year2015: 0.3h; 2016: 4.0h; 2017: 25.5h; 2018: 3.4h, coverage 90%; 2019: 3.9h, coverage 86%; 2020: 4.6h, coverage 88%; 2021: 3.3h, coverage 90%; 2022: 4.3h, coverage 91%; 2023: 26.8h; 2024: 190.0h; 2025: 2.8h0501001502000%50%100%0.3h20154.0h201625.5h20173.4h20183.9h20194.6h20203.3h20214.3h202226.8h2023190.0h20242.8h2025
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Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Georgia customers tracked each year.

Biggest outages in Pierce County, 2018

The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.

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#Started (UTC)Ended (UTC)DurationPeak outCustomer-hours
1August 17, 2018 23:15August 18, 2018 04:455h 30m1,4113,558
2September 18, 2018 12:15September 18, 2018 18:005h 45m1,195903
3July 14, 2018 09:45July 14, 2018 13:153h 30m1,1913,872
4January 3, 2018 21:15January 4, 2018 06:309h 15m1,0141,032
5March 12, 2018 01:00March 12, 2018 02:151h 15m9951,244
6August 6, 2018 23:30August 7, 2018 05:306h906704
7August 20, 2018 17:45August 20, 2018 20:002h 15m884665
8August 21, 2018 21:00August 22, 2018 00:303h 30m7651,725
9May 24, 2018 21:00May 24, 2018 23:152h 15m721728
10December 28, 2018 21:30December 29, 2018 01:003h 30m5841,209

Outage episodes by size in 2018: 31 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Pierce County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.

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UtilityEIA yearSAIDISAIFISAIDI excl. major eventsSAIFI excl. major events
Georgia Power Co20183.8 hrs1.482.1 hrs1.21
Satilla Rural Elec Member Corporation-----

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 ÷ 10,427 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. Pierce County has data for 2015–2025.

Cite this report

MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pierce 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/pierce-county

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