Stephens County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.02 times the US outage time per person and 1.15 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 75 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

92 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Octhardest months

April and October made up 49% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 13, 2020, reached 11,209 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 57.2 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	60,524	16	3
2016	5,237	8	0
2017	134,044	21	1
2018	16,594	27	0
2019	15,764	15	0
2020	286,702	38	3
2021	7,973	19	0
2022	76,900	21	1
2023	15,653	16	0

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
Apr 13, 2020	57.2	11,209	146,812
Sep 11, 2017	91.5	4,835	120,518
Oct 29, 2020	57.0	8,032	115,941
Jan 16, 2022	39.2	4,171	56,999
Feb 17, 2015	13.8	2,191	24,745

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.