Upson County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Upson County, Georgia had 12 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.50 times the US outage time per person and 0.57 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 119 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

72 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Junhardest months

September and June made up 48% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 1,632 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 72.2 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	2,289	6	0
2016	5,708	12	0
2017	85,073	11	2
2018	25,976	8	3
2019	11,968	9	1
2020	45,486	26	1
2021	34,733	22	1
2022	53,568	37	2
2023	47,928	33	2

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	72.2	1,632	73,776
Jun 26, 2023	16.8	2,796	17,050
Oct 28, 2021	6.2	2,215	11,729
Apr 13, 2020	29.2	2,056	11,209
Jan 31, 2022	9.0	1,096	9,843

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.