Worth County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.59 times the US outage time per person and 0.67 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 107 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

96 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 50% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 10, 2018, reached 1,389 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 96.5 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	2,952	4	0
2016	1,288	3	0
2017	44,020	12	2
2018	82,091	4	1
2019	29,683	26	1
2020	25,087	43	0
2021	17,787	29	0
2022	18,430	29	0
2023	42,056	44	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
Oct 10, 2018	96.5	1,389	81,043
Sep 11, 2017	51.2	1,354	34,185
Jul 22, 2023	16.0	1,172	9,802
Jun 20, 2019	12.0	2,292	8,039
May 5, 2021	7.5	1,381	5,961

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.