Evans County, Georgia Power Outages, 2016 to 2023

Evans County, Georgia had 7 major outages from 2016 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.49 times the US outage time per person and 1.68 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 37 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 8 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

5 of 8years with a major outage

53 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 58% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 8, 2016, reached 2,451 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 50.0 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
2016	106,746	6	2
2017	47,060	4	1
2018	33,684	16	1
2019	12,380	17	0
2020	7,018	13	0
2021	19,936	24	0
2022	40,712	33	1
2023	49,874	27	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 8, 2016	50.0	2,451	68,091
Sep 11, 2017	53.2	2,407	45,876
Oct 8, 2016	15.2	2,528	32,759
Oct 11, 2018	17.8	2,442	24,194
Aug 8, 2023	9.2	2,789	10,798

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.