Terrell County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Terrell County, Georgia had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.01 times the US outage time per person and 3.40 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 12 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

122 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 79% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 10, 2018, reached 5,810 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 122.2 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Georgia counties

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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	8,260	8	0
2016	2,503	7	0
2017	103,910	11	2
2018	370,810	17	1
2019	12,466	16	1
2020	18,730	17	0
2021	7,336	8	0
2022	11,958	16	0
2023	40,745	16	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 10, 2018	122.2	5,810	360,643
Sep 11, 2017	61.8	3,233	84,011
Jul 22, 2023	21.8	1,542	23,251
Jul 8, 2017	8.2	1,820	12,024
Apr 13, 2020	6.8	1,250	7,852

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.