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2023 Ben Hill County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Ben Hill County, GA went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 57K customer-hours (Georgia average 6.6 hours). That ranks 115th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 1693rd of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with GA, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Georgia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ben Hill County, 2023
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 30, 2023 13:15 | August 31, 2023 21:00 | 1d 7h | 2,048 | 17K |
| 2 | June 12, 2023 20:15 | June 13, 2023 02:15 | 6h | 1,015 | 2,668 |
| 3 | December 11, 2023 00:15 | December 11, 2023 12:30 | 12h 15m | 824 | 3,777 |
| 4 | May 17, 2023 12:45 | May 17, 2023 14:00 | 1h 15m | 809 | 609 |
| 5 | August 28, 2023 16:15 | August 28, 2023 18:15 | 2h | 738 | 1,104 |
| 6 | August 29, 2023 20:00 | August 29, 2023 22:00 | 2h | 732 | 754 |
| 7 | November 2, 2023 07:30 | November 2, 2023 13:00 | 5h 30m | 732 | 2,650 |
| 8 | December 11, 2023 17:15 | December 11, 2023 18:45 | 1h 30m | 690 | 878 |
| 9 | December 12, 2023 14:15 | December 12, 2023 14:45 | 30m | 689 | 345 |
| 10 | June 13, 2023 21:30 | June 14, 2023 04:30 | 7h | 601 | 3,281 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 38 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 6.1 hrs | 1.75 | 2.3 hrs | 1.24 |
| 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 n/a of Georgia's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/georgia/ben-hill-county