Walton County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.41 times the US outage time per person and 0.46 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 129 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

81 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Julhardest months

September and July made up 54% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 13,460 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 81.2 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	11,774	11	0
2016	6,699	10	0
2017	416,556	28	1
2018	85,016	65	0
2019	82,843	53	0
2020	117,906	53	1
2021	48,633	37	0
2022	134,170	63	3
2023	76,255	42	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	81.2	13,460	395,455
Oct 29, 2020	57.5	8,429	56,770
Jun 17, 2022	12.2	7,506	30,882
Jul 20, 2023	14.0	5,155	19,299
Jul 21, 2018	6.2	5,368	13,258

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.