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2018 Whitfield County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Whitfield County, GA went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 96K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.7 hours). That ranks 137th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 2161st 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 Whitfield 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 | July 21, 2018 07:15 | July 22, 2018 06:45 | 23h 30m | 2,856 | 18K |
| 2 | May 16, 2018 20:45 | May 16, 2018 21:45 | 1h | 2,733 | 2,733 |
| 3 | July 9, 2018 11:45 | July 9, 2018 21:30 | 9h 45m | 1,534 | 791 |
| 4 | January 6, 2018 17:30 | January 6, 2018 18:30 | 1h | 1,480 | 1,479 |
| 5 | June 25, 2018 12:30 | June 26, 2018 05:30 | 17h | 1,450 | 4,557 |
| 6 | September 27, 2018 15:00 | September 27, 2018 20:15 | 5h 15m | 1,350 | 2,520 |
| 7 | June 22, 2018 20:45 | June 23, 2018 06:15 | 9h 30m | 1,327 | 2,352 |
| 8 | June 23, 2018 15:15 | June 24, 2018 08:30 | 17h 15m | 1,296 | 3,925 |
| 9 | October 24, 2018 17:45 | October 24, 2018 22:30 | 4h 45m | 1,152 | 303 |
| 10 | August 31, 2018 00:30 | August 31, 2018 21:00 | 20h 30m | 1,138 | 1,669 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 78 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Whitfield 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 |
| North Georgia Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 3.5 hrs | 1.99 | 2.7 hrs | 1.78 |
| Dalton Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 71,130 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. Whitfield County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Whitfield 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/whitfield-county