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2023 Effingham County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Effingham County, GA went without power for an average of 6.0 hours, a total of 163K customer-hours (Georgia average 6.6 hours). That ranks 90th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 1297th 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 Effingham 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 | June 14, 2023 23:45 | June 16, 2023 03:15 | 1d 3h | 7,332 | 55K |
| 2 | December 29, 2023 15:45 | December 30, 2023 00:45 | 9h | 2,947 | 1,520 |
| 3 | April 1, 2023 09:45 | April 1, 2023 10:00 | 15m | 2,774 | 694 |
| 4 | August 30, 2023 15:00 | August 31, 2023 19:45 | 1d 4h | 2,584 | 11K |
| 5 | September 26, 2023 06:00 | September 26, 2023 19:15 | 13h 15m | 2,392 | 1,249 |
| 6 | June 28, 2023 20:45 | June 28, 2023 23:45 | 3h | 2,291 | 2,064 |
| 7 | April 29, 2023 12:45 | May 1, 2023 04:45 | 1d 16h | 2,202 | 7,422 |
| 8 | August 15, 2023 21:30 | August 17, 2023 13:00 | 1d 15h | 2,032 | 5,975 |
| 9 | July 22, 2023 04:30 | July 22, 2023 10:45 | 6h 15m | 1,624 | 9,345 |
| 10 | April 27, 2023 23:45 | April 28, 2023 19:15 | 19h 30m | 1,596 | 849 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 65 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Effingham 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 |
| Excelsior Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Planters Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 27,148 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. Effingham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Effingham 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/effingham-county