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2019 Ben Hill County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Ben Hill County, GA went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Georgia average 2.5 hours). That ranks 124th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 2437th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with GA, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Georgia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ben Hill County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 4, 2019 17:30 | January 4, 2019 18:15 | 45m | 1,703 | 882 |
| 2 | April 15, 2019 12:15 | April 15, 2019 14:30 | 2h 15m | 1,146 | 475 |
| 3 | December 11, 2019 15:00 | December 11, 2019 15:30 | 30m | 596 | 174 |
| 4 | January 16, 2019 14:15 | January 16, 2019 15:15 | 1h | 595 | 353 |
| 5 | July 6, 2019 21:45 | July 7, 2019 02:45 | 5h | 436 | 760 |
| 6 | January 15, 2019 18:45 | January 15, 2019 20:45 | 2h | 432 | 219 |
| 7 | April 19, 2019 14:30 | April 20, 2019 01:30 | 11h | 408 | 2,460 |
| 8 | March 3, 2019 20:30 | March 4, 2019 02:30 | 6h | 380 | 1,042 |
| 9 | June 1, 2019 13:30 | June 1, 2019 15:00 | 1h 30m | 301 | 452 |
| 10 | December 17, 2019 17:00 | December 18, 2019 10:00 | 17h | 265 | 1,512 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 25 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Ben Hill County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
| Satilla Rural Elec Member Corporation | - | - | - | - | - |
| Irwin Electric Membership Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Middle Georgia El Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Fitzgerald Wtr Lgt & Bond Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 86% of Georgia's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 14,643 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. Ben Hill County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ben Hill County, GA annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/georgia/ben-hill-county