Decatur County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Decatur County, Georgia had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.55 times the US outage time per person and 4.00 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 5 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

270 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 80% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 10, 2018, reached 13,136 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 269.8 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	20,672	19	1
2016	22,668	24	1
2017	150,859	39	3
2018	1,723,090	44	2
2019	38,094	39	2
2020	63,262	44	2
2021	40,638	31	1
2022	64,082	36	2
2023	170,382	43	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
Oct 10, 2018	269.8	13,136	1,677,142
Sep 11, 2017	66.0	6,465	116,586
Jun 15, 2023	18.0	7,157	93,844
Apr 3, 2023	22.5	5,722	37,387
Jul 21, 2018	27.5	2,513	16,112

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.