Paulding County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Paulding County, Georgia had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.51 times the US outage time per person and 0.58 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 118 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

97 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Octhardest months

December and October made up 70% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 8, 2017, reached 27,364 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 96.8 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	14,093	21	0
2016	21,023	34	0
2017	890,986	62	1
2018	59,168	71	0
2019	48,022	85	0
2020	711,078	66	2
2021	89,497	101	1
2022	110,673	112	1
2023	188,828	99	4

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
Dec 8, 2017	96.8	27,364	817,645
Oct 29, 2020	88.2	29,999	627,215
Jun 25, 2023	21.5	10,995	53,732
Jun 17, 2022	10.2	7,787	38,490
Aug 7, 2023	11.8	8,793	32,678

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.