Chatham County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Chatham County, Georgia had 31 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.46 times the US outage time per person and 2.78 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 15 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.4major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

153 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 82% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 8, 2016, reached 114,943 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 153.0 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
2015	369,590	200	3
2016	10,336,885	153	7
2017	3,265,889	201	1
2018	283,039	172	1
2019	386,048	162	3
2020	277,512	159	2
2021	312,026	148	2
2022	341,122	167	7
2023	1,084,973	203	5

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
Oct 8, 2016	153.0	114,943	7,079,725
Sep 11, 2017	125.8	76,043	3,044,014
Oct 7, 2016	24.5	141,489	1,929,942
Sep 2, 2016	60.5	47,986	1,036,650
Aug 30, 2023	58.0	37,181	652,248

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.