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2024 Ben Hill County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Ben Hill County, GA went without power for an average of 26.4 hours, a total of 387K customer-hours (Georgia average 25.8 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 365th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with GA, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Georgia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ben Hill County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 27, 2024 03:30 | October 7, 2024 21:15 | 10d 17h | 4,143 | 364K |
| 2 | September 24, 2024 18:00 | September 24, 2024 19:00 | 1h | 2,817 | 2,817 |
| 3 | May 9, 2024 18:30 | May 10, 2024 00:15 | 5h 45m | 818 | 1,806 |
| 4 | August 12, 2024 17:00 | August 12, 2024 18:30 | 1h 30m | 740 | 740 |
| 5 | July 1, 2024 05:00 | July 1, 2024 07:45 | 2h 45m | 718 | 1,236 |
| 6 | November 14, 2024 16:15 | November 14, 2024 18:00 | 1h 45m | 526 | 871 |
| 7 | January 10, 2024 04:45 | January 10, 2024 06:00 | 1h 15m | 323 | 303 |
| 8 | May 22, 2024 17:30 | May 22, 2024 19:15 | 1h 45m | 319 | 163 |
| 9 | May 27, 2024 22:15 | May 28, 2024 21:00 | 22h 45m | 296 | 2,770 |
| 10 | February 11, 2024 10:15 | February 11, 2024 13:00 | 2h 45m | 274 | 505 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 31 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 2024, 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 | 2024 | 25.3 hrs | 2.07 | 2.1 hrs | 1.02 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/georgia/ben-hill-county