Barrow County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Barrow County, Georgia had 13 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.

1.4major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

101 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Febhardest months

September and February made up 59% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 14,449 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 101.0 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	123,938	31	2
2016	19,016	39	0
2017	435,827	23	2
2018	31,418	38	0
2019	30,471	19	0
2020	92,382	37	4
2021	49,458	44	1
2022	64,553	50	2
2023	106,822	37	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	101.0	14,449	403,014
Feb 17, 2015	16.2	6,776	74,626
Jul 20, 2023	25.2	5,308	57,970
Feb 17, 2015	23.8	2,882	26,406
Oct 29, 2020	14.0	3,577	19,094

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.