Oglethorpe County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Oglethorpe County, Georgia had 13 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.75 times the US outage time per person and 0.85 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 93 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

97 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Sephardest months

July and September made up 37% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 20, 2023, reached 2,050 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 46.0 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.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	15,613	14	1
2016	3,810	11	0
2017	42,013	11	1
2018	14,337	27	1
2019	20,996	21	1
2020	33,550	26	2
2021	35,899	17	3
2022	51,810	27	3
2023	50,586	22	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
Jul 20, 2023	46.0	2,050	38,805
Sep 11, 2017	97.0	597	37,877
Jan 3, 2022	23.5	2,536	24,631
Feb 28, 2021	17.0	1,219	20,658
Feb 17, 2015	13.2	1,028	10,760

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.