Turner County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Turner County, Georgia had 3 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.29 times the US outage time per person and 2.58 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 20 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.3major outages per year

2 of 9years with a major outage

95 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 83% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 10, 2018, reached 4,844 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 95.2 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	3,898	4	0
2016	14,582	3	0
2017	149,846	11	1
2018	237,533	20	2
2019	8,854	9	0
2020	2,852	7	0
2021	11,480	10	0
2022	10,520	18	0
2023	14,679	18	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
Oct 10, 2018	95.2	4,844	224,771
Sep 11, 2017	76.5	4,866	141,889
Jun 18, 2016	6.2	2,502	8,190
Aug 25, 2016	1.8	2,507	4,387
May 5, 2021	5.8	781	4,113

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.