Gordon County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Gordon County, Georgia had 17 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.64 times the US outage time per person and 0.73 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 106 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.9major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

82 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Julhardest months

October and July made up 36% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 9,380 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 81.5 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	15,671	13	2
2016	17,272	12	1
2017	129,751	49	4
2018	57,545	60	2
2019	68,172	70	0
2020	223,017	61	3
2021	91,004	46	0
2022	119,496	63	3
2023	138,971	55	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 29, 2020	81.5	9,380	137,099
Jul 20, 2023	75.2	3,691	72,519
Dec 9, 2017	40.2	1,573	32,374
Feb 4, 2021	2.2	12,630	25,068
Jan 23, 2017	13.2	3,536	24,055

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.