Habersham County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.50 times the US outage time per person and 2.82 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 14 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

151 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 63% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 18,799 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 151.2 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	394,357	59	3
2016	21,164	28	0
2017	1,191,977	63	3
2018	85,890	59	1
2019	50,038	48	2
2020	530,509	46	5
2021	39,382	38	1
2022	370,178	33	2
2023	50,149	46	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
Sep 11, 2017	151.2	18,799	1,120,080
Oct 29, 2020	70.2	14,772	391,578
Jan 16, 2022	61.8	12,033	276,537
Oct 4, 2015	27.2	7,882	145,275
Feb 17, 2015	44.5	5,674	96,872

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.