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2022 Ben Hill County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Ben Hill County, GA went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (Georgia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 127th worst of 158 Georgia counties and 2382nd of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with GA, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Georgia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ben Hill County, 2022
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 19, 2022 18:30 | July 20, 2022 00:45 | 6h 15m | 823 | 1,152 |
| 2 | December 20, 2022 19:30 | December 20, 2022 21:45 | 2h 15m | 808 | 1,622 |
| 3 | May 25, 2022 12:15 | May 25, 2022 13:45 | 1h 30m | 689 | 776 |
| 4 | December 27, 2022 12:00 | December 27, 2022 13:15 | 1h 15m | 686 | 686 |
| 5 | September 27, 2022 01:30 | September 27, 2022 04:15 | 2h 45m | 554 | 1,435 |
| 6 | January 3, 2022 06:00 | January 3, 2022 19:30 | 13h 30m | 522 | 2,929 |
| 7 | March 19, 2022 01:00 | March 19, 2022 06:00 | 5h | 497 | 1,199 |
| 8 | March 18, 2022 20:45 | March 18, 2022 22:30 | 1h 45m | 496 | 763 |
| 9 | August 8, 2022 09:00 | August 8, 2022 11:15 | 2h 15m | 417 | 774 |
| 10 | June 18, 2022 01:30 | June 18, 2022 12:45 | 11h 15m | 371 | 3,089 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 26 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 2022, 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 | 2022 | 3.8 hrs | 1.60 | 2.4 hrs | 1.27 |
| 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 91% of Georgia's customers in 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/georgia/ben-hill-county