Lumpkin County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lumpkin County, Georgia had 32 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.47 times the US outage time per person and 3.92 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 6 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.6major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

140 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 12,962 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 140.0 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Georgia counties

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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	524,967	35	6
2016	39,128	27	0
2017	1,063,216	70	8
2018	86,424	58	5
2019	56,770	49	2
2020	544,919	50	3
2021	75,332	62	2
2022	199,140	43	3
2023	161,801	65	3

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	140.0	12,962	829,324
Oct 29, 2020	108.5	12,023	465,267
Feb 17, 2015	44.5	9,801	226,927
Feb 16, 2015	20.5	11,191	185,514
Jan 3, 2022	66.2	4,444	103,675

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.