Putnam County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Putnam County, Georgia had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.31 times the US outage time per person and 2.61 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 18 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

122 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Junhardest months

September and June made up 76% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 14,823 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 122.0 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	10,412	15	0
2016	37,074	22	1
2017	805,289	21	2
2018	77,242	35	2
2019	25,041	29	0
2020	57,032	39	0
2021	23,690	37	0
2022	100,313	54	3
2023	52,970	39	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
Sep 11, 2017	122.0	14,823	783,489
Oct 11, 2018	23.5	3,057	44,480
Jun 17, 2022	44.5	4,177	43,624
Jun 17, 2016	20.8	3,077	26,544
Jun 25, 2023	11.0	1,692	9,788

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.