Lamar County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lamar County, Georgia had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.12 times the US outage time per person and 1.27 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 66 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

78 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Junhardest months

September and June made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 4,814 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	12,104	11	0
2016	27,053	16	1
2017	244,774	22	1
2018	26,627	23	2
2019	14,169	27	0
2020	29,356	32	1
2021	9,856	20	0
2022	45,470	43	2
2023	102,216	31	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
Sep 11, 2017	78.0	4,814	220,463
Jun 25, 2023	17.0	5,769	34,354
Jan 12, 2023	47.2	2,061	32,931
Dec 25, 2016	42.5	435	17,617
Jun 4, 2018	12.5	1,878	10,686

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.