Liberty County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Liberty County, Georgia had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.70 times the US outage time per person and 0.79 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 98 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

75 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 65% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 8, 2016, reached 8,645 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 74.8 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	11,387	10	0
2016	505,900	26	3
2017	166,809	23	1
2018	27,822	29	0
2019	36,141	43	0
2020	100,054	60	2
2021	33,254	42	0
2022	82,610	63	0
2023	93,209	68	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
Oct 8, 2016	74.8	8,645	329,458
Sep 11, 2017	59.8	9,888	145,932
Oct 7, 2016	18.2	10,921	143,806
Apr 13, 2020	21.0	3,095	27,900
Aug 30, 2023	22.0	3,010	22,332

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.