Coweta County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Coweta County, Georgia had 17 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.50 times the US outage time per person and 0.57 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 119 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.9major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

75 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Octhardest months

March and October made up 36% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 18,451 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 42.8 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	22,894	21	0
2016	15,236	23	0
2017	217,269	30	1
2018	108,095	90	0
2019	149,056	95	0
2020	618,521	95	4
2021	156,752	87	1
2022	224,067	83	5
2023	237,330	91	6

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 29, 2020	42.8	18,451	254,149
Mar 31, 2020	39.2	26,923	191,399
Sep 11, 2017	75.2	7,621	189,044
Mar 26, 2021	25.5	8,675	70,411
Dec 23, 2022	44.5	4,586	54,745

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.