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2018 Richmond County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Richmond County, GA went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 243K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.7 hours). That ranks 118th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 1841st 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 Richmond 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 06:00 | October 13, 2018 03:30 | 1d 21h | 10,373 | 107K |
| 2 | August 8, 2018 15:15 | August 9, 2018 15:00 | 23h 45m | 6,452 | 16K |
| 3 | June 25, 2018 02:00 | June 26, 2018 22:00 | 1d 20h | 3,863 | 20K |
| 4 | June 16, 2018 00:00 | June 17, 2018 09:45 | 1d 9h | 2,341 | 8,694 |
| 5 | August 18, 2018 13:30 | August 18, 2018 15:30 | 2h | 2,189 | 1,643 |
| 6 | September 27, 2018 15:45 | September 28, 2018 07:45 | 16h | 1,959 | 3,344 |
| 7 | February 4, 2018 16:45 | February 4, 2018 22:45 | 6h | 1,928 | 2,594 |
| 8 | May 21, 2018 09:45 | May 21, 2018 18:45 | 9h | 1,648 | 3,642 |
| 9 | June 9, 2018 15:30 | June 9, 2018 21:00 | 5h 30m | 1,643 | 1,689 |
| 10 | August 18, 2018 17:15 | August 18, 2018 23:30 | 6h 15m | 1,591 | 802 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 95 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 Richmond 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 |
| Jefferson Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 4.7 hrs | 1.82 | 2.0 hrs | 1.48 |
| Planters Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sylvania - (GA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 117,219 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. Richmond County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richmond 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/richmond-county