Effingham County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Effingham County, Georgia had 13 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.58 times the US outage time per person and 1.78 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 30 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

97 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 8, 2016, reached 22,313 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 97.0 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Georgia counties

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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	41,977	36	1
2016	1,678,199	33	4
2017	362,191	48	1
2018	58,113	40	1
2019	75,014	36	2
2020	63,804	54	0
2021	57,854	41	2
2022	77,693	59	1
2023	130,404	67	1

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 8, 2016	97.0	22,313	1,274,637
Oct 7, 2016	19.2	28,667	331,386
Sep 11, 2017	78.8	12,146	326,188
Jun 14, 2023	19.2	7,332	53,064
Apr 19, 2019	20.5	6,404	37,341

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.