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2024 Effingham County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Effingham County, GA went without power for an average of 80.2 hours, a total of 2.2M customer-hours (Georgia average 25.8 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 159 Georgia counties and 116th 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 Effingham 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 01:45 | October 8, 2024 00:15 | 10d 22h | 27,466 | 2.1M |
| 2 | August 5, 2024 01:00 | August 15, 2024 21:45 | 10d 20h | 3,999 | 29K |
| 3 | July 17, 2024 18:15 | July 18, 2024 09:00 | 14h 45m | 3,779 | 4,394 |
| 4 | October 14, 2024 15:00 | October 14, 2024 23:15 | 8h 15m | 2,112 | 3,150 |
| 5 | January 9, 2024 15:00 | January 10, 2024 03:15 | 12h 15m | 1,722 | 5,395 |
| 6 | October 10, 2024 02:30 | October 11, 2024 02:15 | 23h 45m | 1,010 | 2,160 |
| 7 | April 11, 2024 07:45 | April 12, 2024 01:45 | 18h | 846 | 4,145 |
| 8 | July 2, 2024 03:45 | July 2, 2024 09:15 | 5h 30m | 793 | 2,381 |
| 9 | July 8, 2024 20:15 | July 8, 2024 21:45 | 1h 30m | 757 | 570 |
| 10 | July 20, 2024 20:45 | July 21, 2024 20:45 | 1d | 680 | 2,736 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 44 reached 100+ customers, 6 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/effingham-county