Walker County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Walker County, Georgia had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.45 times the US outage time per person and 0.51 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 124 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

70 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Aprhardest months

March and April made up 47% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 13, 2020, reached 5,105 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 69.5 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	1,387	3	0
2016	5,258	11	0
2017	166,946	60	1
2018	60,458	41	0
2019	35,237	43	0
2020	200,831	50	3
2021	60,322	29	0
2022	52,942	32	2
2023	109,494	45	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
Apr 13, 2020	69.5	5,105	134,666
Mar 21, 2017	25.0	8,410	84,492
Mar 3, 2023	25.0	6,426	52,983
Feb 4, 2021	2.2	10,290	22,433
May 6, 2022	8.5	4,509	13,580

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.