Echols County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Echols County, Georgia had 4 major outages from 2015 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 9 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

87 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Aughardest months

September and August made up 80% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 653 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 87.0 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	5,553	6	0
2016	19,698	3	1
2017	43,902	1	1
2018	836	1	0
2019	3,765	2	0
2020	53	1	0
2021	3,324	3	0
2022	6,357	4	0
2023	41,726	9	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
Sep 11, 2017	87.0	653	43,902
Aug 30, 2023	59.5	669	35,234
Sep 2, 2016	30.2	704	18,985
Apr 19, 2019	6.5	569	3,698
Jun 15, 2023	13.0	617	3,462

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.
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