County annual report · FIPS 13233
2018 Polk County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Polk County, GA went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 67K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.7 hours). That ranks 90th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 1367th 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 Polk 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 | June 28, 2018 12:15 | June 29, 2018 04:30 | 16h 15m | 1,743 | 4,086 |
| 2 | June 22, 2018 20:30 | June 23, 2018 09:00 | 12h 30m | 1,569 | 2,785 |
| 3 | May 10, 2018 22:45 | May 11, 2018 04:30 | 5h 45m | 1,378 | 2,046 |
| 4 | September 12, 2018 04:00 | September 12, 2018 09:15 | 5h 15m | 1,367 | 1,039 |
| 5 | June 1, 2018 18:45 | June 2, 2018 02:30 | 7h 45m | 1,279 | 4,793 |
| 6 | November 5, 2018 03:45 | November 5, 2018 05:15 | 1h 30m | 1,126 | 285 |
| 7 | August 19, 2018 01:00 | August 19, 2018 03:30 | 2h 30m | 1,093 | 650 |
| 8 | May 30, 2018 09:30 | May 30, 2018 22:00 | 12h 30m | 1,068 | 1,029 |
| 9 | March 20, 2018 02:15 | March 20, 2018 22:15 | 20h | 991 | 3,125 |
| 10 | July 31, 2018 18:30 | August 1, 2018 02:30 | 8h | 980 | 1,260 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 64 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Polk 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 |
| Carroll Electric Member Corp - (GA) | 2018 | 2.9 hrs | 1.48 | 1.8 hrs | 1.31 |
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 ÷ 19,098 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county