Cherokee County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.56 times the US outage time per person and 0.63 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 112 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

106 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Octhardest months

December and October made up 47% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 8, 2017, reached 25,799 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 88.5 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	210,585	92	1
2016	93,940	99	0
2017	1,097,549	97	3
2018	163,254	109	2
2019	91,369	89	0
2020	847,727	110	2
2021	125,016	79	1
2022	243,142	111	2
2023	743,240	134	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	88.5	25,799	747,092
Oct 29, 2020	106.5	33,434	709,577
Jul 20, 2023	95.5	33,595	481,654
Sep 11, 2017	69.2	9,583	168,440
Feb 16, 2015	19.2	8,915	77,404

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.