Lowndes County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lowndes County, Georgia had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.83 times the US outage time per person and 2.07 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 26 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

159 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Sephardest months

August and September made up 94% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 30, 2023, reached 60,581 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 158.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Georgia counties

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	32,941	37	1
2016	210,662	25	1
2017	629,018	32	1
2018	93,956	24	1
2019	11,479	19	0
2020	35,529	38	0
2021	30,156	41	1
2022	28,400	32	0
2023	3,857,430	69	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
Aug 30, 2023	158.8	60,581	3,766,286
Sep 11, 2017	112.5	19,665	602,465
Sep 2, 2016	39.2	13,185	195,026
Oct 10, 2018	26.5	5,362	79,723
Dec 17, 2023	10.2	5,172	15,428

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.