Wilkes County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Wilkes County, Georgia had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.56 times the US outage time per person and 0.63 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 112 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

38 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Sephardest months

July and September made up 39% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 21, 2023, reached 1,115 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 38.2 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	1,078	2	0
2016	1,007	2	0
2017	18,323	10	2
2018	17,902	20	0
2019	5,233	8	0
2020	12,812	16	0
2021	5,066	15	0
2022	25,333	13	2
2023	30,189	21	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
Jul 21, 2023	38.2	1,115	17,388
Jan 3, 2022	13.0	1,984	12,365
Sep 11, 2017	22.0	488	9,844
Aug 2, 2018	4.8	1,483	6,086
Apr 6, 2022	10.0	1,185	5,306

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.