County annual report · FIPS 13277
2018 Tift County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Tift County, GA went without power for an average of 12.6 hours, a total of 308K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.7 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 439th 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 Tift 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 10, 2018 19:15 | October 15, 2018 00:30 | 4d 5h | 10,161 | 287K |
| 2 | December 29, 2018 08:30 | December 29, 2018 10:45 | 2h 15m | 647 | 1,456 |
| 3 | June 4, 2018 04:00 | June 4, 2018 23:30 | 19h 30m | 615 | 4,244 |
| 4 | August 29, 2018 22:00 | August 30, 2018 01:45 | 3h 45m | 576 | 473 |
| 5 | December 2, 2018 14:45 | December 2, 2018 21:45 | 7h | 533 | 3,194 |
| 6 | May 19, 2018 13:45 | May 19, 2018 16:30 | 2h 45m | 502 | 629 |
| 7 | February 2, 2018 02:00 | February 2, 2018 05:15 | 3h 15m | 499 | 1,619 |
| 8 | May 16, 2018 13:15 | May 16, 2018 16:00 | 2h 45m | 477 | 249 |
| 9 | March 5, 2018 19:45 | March 5, 2018 21:15 | 1h 30m | 380 | 570 |
| 10 | August 10, 2018 19:45 | August 10, 2018 21:15 | 1h 30m | 251 | 377 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 21 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Tift 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 |
| Mitchell Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Colquitt Electric Membership Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Irwin Electric Membership Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Adel- (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 ÷ 24,544 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. Tift County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Tift 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/tift-county