Bartow County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Bartow County, Georgia had 21 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.67 times the US outage time per person and 0.75 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 104 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.3major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

85 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Octhardest months

December and October made up 53% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 8, 2017, reached 17,330 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 78.0 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	50,510	52	0
2016	70,190	55	1
2017	535,012	75	2
2018	66,236	67	2
2019	99,498	67	3
2020	565,726	58	5
2021	111,283	53	2
2022	105,762	70	3
2023	120,316	63	3

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
Dec 8, 2017	78.0	17,330	433,697
Oct 29, 2020	85.2	19,932	366,576
Jan 11, 2020	10.8	7,893	47,600
Mar 26, 2021	28.0	3,319	46,591
Feb 20, 2019	27.2	1,896	32,394

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.