DeKalb County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

DeKalb County, Georgia had 43 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.22 times the US outage time per person and 1.38 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 62 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.8major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

113 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 53% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 176,310 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 113.2 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	547,126	326	3
2016	862,550	326	7
2017	8,300,951	344	6
2018	650,791	387	3
2019	1,023,272	396	3
2020	4,384,046	410	5
2021	983,417	375	1
2022	1,499,235	425	9
2023	2,444,456	438	6

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	113.2	176,310	6,630,565
Oct 29, 2020	111.0	139,779	3,222,785
Jun 25, 2023	37.5	66,499	680,530
Mar 22, 2017	23.2	75,787	620,152
Aug 7, 2023	13.2	69,184	549,023

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.