County annual report · FIPS 13241
2018 Rabun County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Rabun County, GA went without power for an average of 27.4 hours, a total of 278K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.7 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 203rd 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 Rabun 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 | December 9, 2018 03:15 | December 11, 2018 22:30 | 2d 19h | 7,078 | 199K |
| 2 | June 30, 2018 04:00 | June 30, 2018 04:30 | 30m | 3,641 | 915 |
| 3 | October 25, 2018 12:45 | October 25, 2018 15:15 | 2h 30m | 1,763 | 892 |
| 4 | November 6, 2018 02:15 | November 6, 2018 03:00 | 45m | 1,743 | 437 |
| 5 | July 4, 2018 03:15 | July 4, 2018 12:15 | 9h | 1,697 | 7,279 |
| 6 | May 29, 2018 02:30 | May 30, 2018 01:00 | 22h 30m | 1,060 | 7,146 |
| 7 | June 24, 2018 19:00 | June 25, 2018 01:45 | 6h 45m | 982 | 2,029 |
| 8 | August 3, 2018 05:15 | August 4, 2018 09:15 | 1d 4h | 909 | 5,049 |
| 9 | December 21, 2018 18:00 | December 22, 2018 05:45 | 11h 45m | 878 | 3,600 |
| 10 | April 23, 2018 08:00 | April 23, 2018 09:30 | 1h 30m | 851 | 639 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 76 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Rabun 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 |
| Haywood Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 33.4 hrs | 5.14 | 8.2 hrs | 3.40 |
| Habersham Electric Membership Corp | 2018 | 8.1 hrs | 2.15 | 2.6 hrs | 1.78 |
| Habersham Electric Membership Corp,habershamemc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 10,115 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. Rabun County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rabun 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/rabun-county