Towns County, Georgia Power Outages, 2019 to 2023

Towns County, Georgia had 3 major outages from 2019 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.94 times the US outage time per person and 1.06 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 80 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 5 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

2 of 5years with a major outage

28 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Janhardest months

October and January made up 51% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 3,939 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 27.8 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2019	4,630	11	0
2020	68,110	15	2
2021	12,210	11	0
2022	24,140	15	0
2023	43,010	20	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
Oct 29, 2020	27.8	3,939	37,154
Mar 3, 2023	7.2	6,088	15,002
Jan 11, 2020	25.5	1,313	12,372
Jan 13, 2020	6.5	2,036	5,690
Jan 16, 2022	7.0	2,230	5,629

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.