Franklin County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Franklin County, Georgia had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.55 times the US outage time per person and 0.62 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 114 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

52 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Sephardest months

April and September made up 41% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 13, 2020, reached 7,757 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 39.0 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	60,099	13	3
2016	3,131	6	0
2017	58,132	8	1
2018	15,212	19	1
2019	18,930	12	1
2020	110,294	22	1
2021	4,524	15	0
2022	22,818	16	2
2023	13,770	18	0

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
Apr 13, 2020	39.0	7,757	72,366
Sep 11, 2017	52.2	2,604	49,172
Feb 17, 2015	15.2	2,316	27,784
Oct 29, 2020	7.0	6,348	27,449
Feb 17, 2015	22.8	1,130	14,486

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.