County annual report · FIPS 13317
2018 Wilkes County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Wilkes County, GA went without power for an average of 5.8 hours, a total of 44K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.7 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 157 Georgia counties and 936th 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 Wilkes 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 | August 2, 2018 00:15 | August 2, 2018 12:30 | 12h 15m | 1,483 | 6,094 |
| 2 | July 25, 2018 12:30 | July 25, 2018 13:30 | 1h | 937 | 907 |
| 3 | April 18, 2018 14:00 | April 18, 2018 14:15 | 15m | 934 | 234 |
| 4 | June 1, 2018 21:00 | June 3, 2018 15:45 | 1d 18h | 893 | 3,205 |
| 5 | July 3, 2018 22:00 | July 4, 2018 15:15 | 17h 15m | 828 | 1,026 |
| 6 | June 10, 2018 19:30 | June 12, 2018 10:30 | 1d 15h | 641 | 703 |
| 7 | June 20, 2018 01:45 | June 20, 2018 12:15 | 10h 30m | 614 | 317 |
| 8 | September 16, 2018 04:30 | September 16, 2018 10:00 | 5h 30m | 611 | 617 |
| 9 | September 27, 2018 22:15 | September 28, 2018 11:15 | 13h | 546 | 1,806 |
| 10 | October 11, 2018 06:00 | October 12, 2018 13:30 | 1d 7h | 430 | 1,672 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 24 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Wilkes 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 |
| Rayle Electric Membership Corp | 2018 | 5.0 hrs | 2.55 | 3.0 hrs | 1.76 |
| City of Washington - (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 ÷ 7,535 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. Wilkes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wilkes 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/wilkes-county