White County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

White County, Georgia had 18 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.16 times the US outage time per person and 4.69 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 2 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.0major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

166 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 60% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 11,671 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 166.5 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	343,567	40	4
2016	23,123	33	0
2017	1,050,353	58	3
2018	40,967	51	1
2019	50,703	54	1
2020	633,931	44	4
2021	33,088	45	0
2022	379,178	42	4
2023	159,897	48	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	166.5	11,671	932,800
Oct 29, 2020	70.2	13,411	506,109
Jan 3, 2022	48.0	11,761	208,046
Oct 4, 2015	31.0	8,526	171,452
Jan 16, 2022	54.8	7,845	136,217

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.