Clayton County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Clayton County, Georgia had 30 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.68 times the US outage time per person and 0.76 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 102 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.3major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

87 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Junhardest months

September and June made up 47% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 49,422 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 86.8 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	157,019	114	1
2016	187,736	100	2
2017	1,577,073	124	1
2018	230,336	132	1
2019	329,027	120	5
2020	628,165	165	4
2021	341,570	144	3
2022	390,975	141	6
2023	593,419	191	7

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 11, 2017	86.8	49,422	1,448,416
Oct 29, 2020	54.2	17,247	275,562
Jun 25, 2023	31.8	14,351	119,115
Aug 7, 2023	14.0	15,910	95,538
Mar 12, 2022	18.2	10,223	69,489

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.