Clarke County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Clarke County, Georgia had 17 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.75 times the US outage time per person and 0.84 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 93 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.9major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

104 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Julhardest months

September and July made up 64% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 29,289 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 103.8 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	195,618	53	4
2016	43,319	50	0
2017	786,450	51	2
2018	139,010	64	1
2019	60,908	39	1
2020	141,806	77	2
2021	83,282	68	1
2022	87,757	68	1
2023	597,037	60	5

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	103.8	29,289	668,420
Jul 20, 2023	52.0	21,517	436,919
Feb 17, 2015	17.0	11,338	99,448
Jul 22, 2018	21.2	10,432	74,614
Jul 1, 2017	15.5	8,522	47,288

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.