Richmond County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Richmond County, Georgia had 15 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.35 times the US outage time per person and 0.40 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 136 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.7major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

102 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Julhardest months

September and July made up 47% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 22,464 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 102.2 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	84,047	66	1
2016	108,678	86	1
2017	590,826	65	2
2018	199,428	92	3
2019	64,282	58	0
2020	86,666	74	1
2021	69,432	64	0
2022	178,940	76	3
2023	209,160	106	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
Sep 11, 2017	102.2	22,464	504,816
Oct 11, 2018	34.8	10,373	106,002
Jan 3, 2022	30.5	7,531	61,288
Jul 21, 2023	23.0	8,149	55,232
May 6, 2022	22.8	4,174	37,120

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.