Grady County, Georgia Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Grady County, Georgia had 13 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.42 times the US outage time per person and 3.86 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 7 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

1.9major outages per year

4 of 7years with a major outage

116 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 82% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 12, 2018, reached 9,046 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 37.0 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
2017	133,756	26	3
2018	1,183,620	61	7
2019	20,344	32	0
2020	21,946	30	0
2021	35,182	39	1
2022	24,268	31	0
2023	118,576	48	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
Oct 12, 2018	37.0	9,046	317,054
Oct 15, 2018	116.2	5,076	266,916
Oct 13, 2018	35.8	8,355	239,979
Oct 11, 2018	20.0	9,059	181,128
Oct 15, 2018	13.2	5,141	67,377

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.