Miller County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Miller County, Georgia had 2 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.39 times the US outage time per person and 1.57 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 45 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.2major outages per year

2 of 9years with a major outage

126 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Junhardest months

October and June made up 86% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 10, 2018, reached 1,135 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 126.5 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Georgia counties

MostLeast

Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

50K

100K

150K

200K

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	4,098	4	0
2016	2,682	4	0
2017	2,540	3	0
2018	146,107	9	1
2019	2,299	3	0
2020	524	1	0
2021	6,835	6	0
2022	3,038	5	0
2023	9,984	6	1

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

25%

50%

75%

100%

JanJFebFMarMAprAMayMJunJJulJAugASepSOctONovNDecD

Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Oct 10, 2018	126.5	1,135	142,580
Jun 15, 2023	18.2	616	5,534
Apr 24, 2021	4.8	1,176	3,334
Jul 16, 2015	4.5	662	2,678
Jul 27, 2021	4.8	542	2,057

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.

Look up another county

Counties ranked nearby

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.