Dougherty County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Dougherty County, Georgia had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.36 times the US outage time per person and 0.40 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 134 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

124 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Janhardest months

October and January made up 73% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 10, 2018, reached 4,667 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 124.5 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	3,158	10	0
2016	4,788	7	0
2017	95,925	15	3
2018	404,994	16	1
2019	16,299	28	0
2020	32,689	42	0
2021	14,932	31	0
2022	16,780	32	0
2023	56,162	53	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
Oct 10, 2018	124.5	4,667	391,882
Jan 22, 2017	64.8	1,187	45,347
Jan 3, 2017	19.5	2,472	20,209
Jun 14, 2023	21.2	2,256	20,191
Sep 11, 2017	31.5	1,939	19,968

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.