Pulaski County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Pulaski County, Georgia had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.44 times the US outage time per person and 1.62 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 40 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

69 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 68% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 11, 2018, reached 2,277 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 68.8 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	1,007	2	0
2016	1,603	3	0
2017	83,903	5	2
2018	126,964	5	1
2019	5,758	11	0
2020	59,332	22	1
2021	10,796	5	1
2022	15,252	17	1
2023	17,116	17	1

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
Oct 11, 2018	68.8	2,277	125,117
Sep 11, 2017	65.2	2,253	79,580
Apr 19, 2020	26.0	3,970	44,757
Jun 26, 2023	25.0	591	8,025
May 26, 2021	15.2	1,086	6,737

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.