Twiggs County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.90 times the US outage time per person and 1.01 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 83 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

101 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 1,416 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 100.8 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	3,635	3	0
2016	3,658	3	0
2017	72,622	6	1
2018	16,629	4	2
2019	9,655	11	0
2020	9,143	8	1
2021	6,044	6	0
2022	14,894	8	1
2023	16,564	13	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
Sep 11, 2017	100.8	1,416	67,246
Apr 5, 2022	16.2	771	11,579
Jun 26, 2023	13.0	1,294	10,652
Oct 11, 2018	9.8	919	8,642
Oct 11, 2018	22.0	379	6,041

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.