Tift County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Tift County, Georgia had 6 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.17 times the US outage time per person and 1.32 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 63 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

83 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Sephardest months

August and September made up 62% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 30, 2023, reached 17,213 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 72.5 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	10,379	13	0
2016	28,768	18	1
2017	285,334	15	1
2018	297,490	13	2
2019	14,238	17	0
2020	16,884	15	1
2021	5,859	13	0
2022	12,704	15	0
2023	401,419	41	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
Aug 30, 2023	72.5	17,213	357,341
Oct 10, 2018	72.0	10,161	285,054
Sep 11, 2017	82.8	10,285	274,244
Sep 2, 2016	11.2	2,790	18,629
Jul 5, 2023	2.0	3,873	6,595

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.