Monroe County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Monroe County, Georgia had 12 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.16 times the US outage time per person and 1.31 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 64 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

100 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Junhardest months

September and June made up 59% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 10,238 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 99.5 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	11,338	17	0
2016	34,564	36	0
2017	384,376	38	3
2018	57,742	38	2
2019	66,884	51	0
2020	47,570	29	1
2021	34,740	35	1
2022	86,877	49	2
2023	78,920	42	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	99.5	10,238	343,113
Jun 25, 2023	18.2	5,150	35,731
Jun 4, 2018	19.5	6,562	18,249
Oct 11, 2018	17.5	1,415	13,772
Jun 15, 2022	14.8	1,906	13,694

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.