Camden County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Camden County, Georgia had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.50 times the US outage time per person and 1.70 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 36 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

141 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 75% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 10, 2017, reached 22,838 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 141.2 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	26,884	20	1
2016	295,066	19	3
2017	1,148,300	40	1
2018	129,267	60	2
2019	45,934	37	1
2020	50,374	47	0
2021	48,750	56	0
2022	64,646	57	1
2023	147,042	60	2

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 10, 2017	141.2	22,838	1,122,159
Oct 7, 2016	25.5	11,613	210,938
Aug 30, 2023	30.0	9,091	73,833
Oct 8, 2016	25.0	6,137	55,364
Jan 3, 2018	9.0	6,802	38,540

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.