Thomas County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Thomas County, Georgia had 13 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.98 times the US outage time per person and 1.10 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 79 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

104 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 71% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 10, 2018, reached 8,661 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 104.0 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	13,530	23	0
2016	29,964	11	1
2017	223,346	20	2
2018	481,637	45	3
2019	14,399	17	1
2020	20,273	24	0
2021	29,597	34	0
2022	18,187	28	1
2023	157,878	38	5

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	104.0	8,661	418,285
Sep 11, 2017	64.5	7,969	188,449
Aug 30, 2023	55.2	3,456	73,498
Jun 15, 2023	17.8	2,874	32,801
Jan 22, 2017	26.5	1,771	21,964

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.