Houston County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Houston County, Georgia had 6 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.28 times the US outage time per person and 0.32 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 143 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

74 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 66% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 21,504 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 74.0 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	31,686	50	0
2016	49,721	55	0
2017	503,697	39	1
2018	236,812	55	2
2019	30,348	44	0
2020	61,618	54	1
2021	59,370	35	1
2022	52,147	47	0
2023	68,873	47	1

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	74.0	21,504	463,935
Oct 11, 2018	19.2	16,736	155,618
Nov 25, 2021	9.2	6,918	31,840
Oct 12, 2018	22.8	2,759	31,753
Apr 13, 2020	12.8	5,923	25,264

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.