Gwinnett County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Gwinnett County, Georgia had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.44 times the US outage time per person and 0.50 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 126 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

104 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 101,504 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 104.0 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	544,068	151	1
2016	222,535	165	0
2017	2,997,171	198	2
2018	881,648	266	2
2019	564,376	254	1
2020	2,159,852	271	2
2021	532,144	282	0
2022	967,400	280	5
2023	942,642	237	3

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	104.0	101,504	2,507,679
Oct 29, 2020	92.8	102,982	1,546,808
Feb 17, 2015	18.5	33,065	335,567
Jul 20, 2023	37.5	44,637	304,951
Jun 1, 2018	35.5	27,328	228,808

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.