County annual report · FIPS 13017
2025 Ben Hill County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Ben Hill County, GA went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 152nd worst of 159 Georgia counties and 2815th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with GA, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Georgia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ben Hill County, 2025
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 21, 2025 20:30 | July 22, 2025 00:15 | 3h 45m | 695 | 833 |
| 2 | June 26, 2025 05:45 | June 26, 2025 21:15 | 15h 30m | 688 | 4,519 |
| 3 | May 11, 2025 16:30 | May 11, 2025 22:00 | 5h 30m | 433 | 798 |
| 4 | May 24, 2025 11:15 | May 24, 2025 13:30 | 2h 15m | 417 | 112 |
| 5 | March 31, 2025 20:15 | March 31, 2025 21:45 | 1h 30m | 373 | 249 |
| 6 | May 24, 2025 20:15 | May 24, 2025 21:15 | 1h | 256 | 89 |
| 7 | March 6, 2025 03:00 | March 6, 2025 04:00 | 1h | 221 | 156 |
| 8 | November 11, 2025 09:45 | November 11, 2025 11:45 | 2h | 161 | 220 |
| 9 | May 19, 2025 04:00 | May 19, 2025 04:15 | 15m | 139 | 35 |
| 10 | October 13, 2025 15:00 | October 13, 2025 22:15 | 7h 15m | 131 | 177 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 12 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/georgia/ben-hill-county