Irwin County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Irwin County, Georgia had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.31 times the US outage time per person and 2.61 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 18 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

88 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 62% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 4,801 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 88.0 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	1,616	2	0
2016	1,283	6	0
2017	194,368	13	1
2018	117,627	19	2
2019	25,771	22	1
2020	23,986	24	1
2021	15,976	12	1
2022	18,020	26	0
2023	66,647	36	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
Sep 11, 2017	88.0	4,801	186,286
Oct 10, 2018	62.0	4,715	84,888
Aug 30, 2023	18.0	3,501	27,935
Mar 4, 2023	5.8	1,779	10,229
May 5, 2021	12.5	1,813	9,266

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.