Banks County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Banks County, Georgia had 15 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.06 times the US outage time per person and 2.32 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 22 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.7major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

122 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 59% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 7,511 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 122.5 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	129,713	25	3
2016	6,560	16	0
2017	442,425	20	1
2018	15,029	21	0
2019	24,361	18	2
2020	133,202	45	5
2021	15,520	16	0
2022	114,898	31	3
2023	39,339	13	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	122.5	7,511	428,356
Jan 16, 2022	37.5	3,569	81,843
Oct 29, 2020	41.8	3,195	52,923
Oct 4, 2015	30.5	3,654	46,357
Apr 13, 2020	36.2	4,455	44,838

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.