Carroll County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Carroll County, Georgia had 13 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.70 times the US outage time per person and 0.79 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 98 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

84 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Octhardest months

December and October made up 64% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 8, 2017, reached 26,373 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 73.5 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	15,928	27	0
2016	34,687	30	0
2017	832,348	90	4
2018	89,270	89	1
2019	66,152	99	0
2020	657,897	107	3
2021	69,316	71	1
2022	77,266	86	2
2023	154,075	105	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
Dec 8, 2017	73.5	26,373	662,414
Oct 29, 2020	84.5	26,270	534,298
Apr 3, 2017	18.2	16,612	73,657
Jan 11, 2020	11.0	6,100	34,850
Aug 7, 2023	10.2	14,755	33,088

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.