Floyd County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Floyd County, Georgia had 28 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.93 times the US outage time per person and 1.04 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 81 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.1major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

106 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Dechardest months

October and December made up 49% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 18,578 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 106.0 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	39,156	47	1
2016	65,143	79	0
2017	403,902	98	5
2018	87,250	92	2
2019	92,468	94	2
2020	865,512	75	4
2021	137,936	102	4
2022	135,378	73	5
2023	237,952	87	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
Oct 29, 2020	106.0	18,578	577,672
Dec 8, 2017	49.5	12,399	258,152
Mar 3, 2023	28.8	6,310	82,764
Jan 11, 2020	11.2	9,277	77,513
Jan 12, 2020	26.0	4,896	71,668

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.