Columbia County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Columbia County, Georgia had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.34 times the US outage time per person and 0.38 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 137 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

106 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Junhardest months

September and June made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 14,958 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 105.8 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	57,532	47	1
2016	104,320	70	2
2017	457,055	68	1
2018	110,282	50	2
2019	71,621	53	2
2020	97,236	62	2
2021	41,309	47	0
2022	202,990	58	3
2023	106,944	57	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
Sep 11, 2017	105.8	14,958	414,834
Jan 3, 2022	19.5	10,588	74,317
Dec 24, 2022	31.8	3,254	61,384
Oct 11, 2018	24.0	6,813	53,410
Jul 21, 2023	22.2	6,007	35,661

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.