Fayette County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Fayette County, Georgia had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.41 times the US outage time per person and 0.47 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 129 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

66 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 39% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 10,536 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 66.2 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	20,580	25	0
2016	13,485	19	0
2017	295,487	23	2
2018	63,640	67	1
2019	95,016	59	2
2020	319,283	62	3
2021	65,558	41	1
2022	133,897	76	3
2023	131,213	61	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	66.2	10,536	264,835
Oct 29, 2020	40.2	11,840	133,501
Mar 31, 2020	27.5	12,933	65,158
Jul 25, 2020	21.5	2,780	46,229
Jun 25, 2023	12.2	5,450	23,453

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.