Murray County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Murray County, Georgia had 13 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.68 times the US outage time per person and 0.77 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 102 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

63 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Julhardest months

April and July made up 41% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 13, 2020, reached 5,017 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 60.8 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	13,272	17	0
2016	27,840	20	1
2017	44,905	35	3
2018	109,962	48	2
2019	49,908	52	1
2020	196,764	25	3
2021	62,266	40	0
2022	48,603	42	1
2023	64,993	40	2

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
Apr 13, 2020	60.8	5,017	108,543
Jul 21, 2018	31.8	5,668	56,748
Oct 29, 2020	63.0	3,371	56,114
Feb 4, 2021	2.2	8,155	17,125
Jul 20, 2023	26.8	1,659	17,018

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.