Dawson County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Dawson County, Georgia had 18 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.59 times the US outage time per person and 1.79 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 29 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.0major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

110 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 56% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 8,646 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 110.2 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	213,876	31	3
2016	19,608	14	0
2017	394,951	35	5
2018	28,997	34	1
2019	33,194	26	2
2020	362,098	30	4
2021	26,792	33	0
2022	62,173	27	2
2023	37,787	26	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
Oct 29, 2020	110.2	8,646	330,433
Sep 11, 2017	98.2	5,407	293,554
Feb 17, 2015	44.5	3,828	107,880
Feb 16, 2015	19.8	5,034	75,622
Mar 22, 2017	23.8	4,361	43,284

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.