Pierce County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Pierce County, Georgia had 6 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.44 times the US outage time per person and 1.63 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 40 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

78 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Aughardest months

September and August made up 75% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 9,135 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 77.8 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	1,078	2	0
2016	36,626	8	2
2017	250,453	23	1
2018	19,352	25	0
2019	26,933	23	0
2020	26,774	25	0
2021	19,498	24	0
2022	28,329	29	0
2023	247,192	43	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	77.8	9,135	240,911
Aug 30, 2023	48.0	11,168	205,878
Oct 8, 2016	15.2	1,891	21,922
Jun 13, 2023	12.8	2,335	12,311
Sep 2, 2016	12.0	1,105	8,247

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.