Ben Hill County, Georgia Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Ben Hill County, Georgia had 8 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.40 times the US outage time per person and 1.58 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 43 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

4 of 7years with a major outage

80 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 68% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 12, 2017, reached 2,250 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 80.5 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2017	146,822	10	2
2018	174,713	16	4
2019	7,128	19	0
2020	14,166	14	0
2021	11,207	10	1
2022	14,412	17	0
2023	38,698	26	1

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Sep 12, 2017	80.5	2,250	99,285
Oct 11, 2018	41.0	3,146	93,823
Sep 11, 2017	19.5	3,204	43,513
Oct 13, 2018	34.2	1,643	29,175
Nov 24, 2018	43.5	664	28,860

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.