Jefferson County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Jefferson County, Georgia had 3 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.06 times the US outage time per person and 1.20 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 71 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.3major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

81 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 59% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 4,900 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 80.8 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	14,005	28	0
2016	24,268	30	0
2017	151,705	20	1
2018	72,606	24	1
2019	9,602	22	0
2020	23,674	17	1
2021	7,731	17	0
2022	27,700	19	0
2023	18,889	24	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	80.8	4,900	131,276
Oct 11, 2018	35.5	5,197	58,764
Jul 20, 2020	8.2	1,970	8,294
Apr 13, 2020	3.8	3,622	6,664
May 6, 2022	6.8	2,542	5,812

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.