Brantley County, Georgia Power Outages, 2016 to 2023

Brantley County, Georgia had 4 major outages from 2016 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.39 times the US outage time per person and 1.56 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 45 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 8 years of records.

0.5major outages per year

4 of 8years with a major outage

87 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Aughardest months

September and August made up 79% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 8,474 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 87.2 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2016	5,002	2	1
2017	243,581	25	1
2018	21,022	31	0
2019	12,520	20	0
2020	24,620	24	0
2021	12,690	14	0
2022	13,199	21	1
2023	176,992	33	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	87.2	8,474	234,670
Aug 30, 2023	31.8	9,052	143,093
Jun 15, 2023	3.2	3,707	10,042
Jun 13, 2023	7.2	2,149	6,658
Aug 2, 2018	2.0	3,455	6,631

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.