Morgan County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.09 times the US outage time per person and 1.24 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 68 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

104 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Janhardest months

September and January made up 56% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 5,286 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 104.2 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	18,426	13	2
2016	17,592	20	0
2017	234,112	13	1
2018	33,312	36	1
2019	31,436	33	0
2020	33,905	45	0
2021	11,985	17	0
2022	44,304	40	2
2023	103,457	42	4

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	104.2	5,286	221,840
Jan 12, 2023	14.8	5,498	35,032
Jul 21, 2023	28.5	3,050	18,110
Jun 25, 2023	18.8	1,628	12,737
Jul 20, 2023	3.5	6,013	11,156

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.