Catoosa County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.58 times the US outage time per person and 0.65 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 111 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

67 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Febhardest months

April and February made up 48% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 13, 2020, reached 12,993 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 66.8 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	846	1	0
2016	8,934	7	0
2017	90,489	49	1
2018	57,928	55	0
2019	65,840	70	1
2020	316,358	56	1
2021	121,676	40	0
2022	136,524	85	1
2023	79,227	74	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
Apr 13, 2020	66.8	12,993	271,988
Feb 4, 2021	2.2	25,998	54,148
Dec 24, 2022	5.5	13,854	37,326
Mar 21, 2017	25.0	3,509	30,402
Feb 4, 2021	1.0	27,379	23,392

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.