Jenkins County, Georgia Power Outages, 2016 to 2023

Jenkins County, Georgia had 1 major outage from 2016 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.10 times the US outage time per person and 0.12 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 147 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 8 years of records.

0.1major outages per year

1 of 8years with a major outage

10 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Junhardest months

October and June made up 87% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 11, 2018, reached 1,511 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 10.5 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Georgia counties

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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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7.5K

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2016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2016	1,541	4	0
2017	148	1	0
2018	9,020	1	1
2019	183	1	0
2020	2,781	2	0
2021	1,545	4	0
2022	186	1	0
2023	2,353	1	0

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 11, 2018	10.5	1,511	9,020
Jun 27, 2023	3.2	724	2,353
Jun 21, 2020	3.5	741	2,124
Jul 11, 2016	1.8	772	1,230
Oct 13, 2021	1.8	741	839

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.