Polk County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Polk County, Georgia had 23 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.28 times the US outage time per person and 1.44 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 58 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.6major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

107 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Octhardest months

December and October made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 8, 2017, reached 10,586 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 77.8 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	23,794	30	0
2016	29,995	20	2
2017	420,689	68	3
2018	36,341	50	0
2019	50,266	47	1
2020	437,358	65	5
2021	113,510	44	2
2022	59,922	57	3
2023	83,505	43	7

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	77.8	10,586	353,415
Oct 29, 2020	106.8	11,874	258,452
Mar 25, 2021	51.2	5,087	67,080
Apr 13, 2020	15.5	5,329	43,662
Jan 11, 2020	11.0	6,298	39,764

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.