Oconee County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Oconee County, Georgia had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.53 times the US outage time per person and 0.60 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 116 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

68 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Junhardest months

September and June made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 6,706 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 68.0 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	10,326	4	1
2016	11,264	7	0
2017	161,725	11	1
2018	40,304	43	0
2019	32,817	30	0
2020	43,787	37	1
2021	91,709	32	1
2022	65,734	31	2
2023	68,014	43	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
Sep 11, 2017	68.0	6,706	136,426
Jun 7, 2021	11.0	5,279	46,739
Jan 3, 2022	31.2	3,872	32,796
Aug 7, 2023	11.2	8,409	19,522
Dec 25, 2017	2.2	8,372	18,837

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.