Douglas County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.59 times the US outage time per person and 0.67 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 107 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

88 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Dechardest months

October and December made up 56% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 34,101 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 88.2 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	30,729	26	1
2016	53,487	61	1
2017	508,770	80	4
2018	110,843	92	1
2019	71,620	72	0
2020	704,300	77	2
2021	150,234	115	2
2022	133,981	123	3
2023	207,309	114	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 29, 2020	88.2	34,101	621,612
Dec 8, 2017	74.2	18,018	408,781
Jun 25, 2023	20.0	8,767	60,202
Mar 20, 2018	21.5	7,331	42,449
Apr 25, 2021	21.5	5,184	42,337

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.