Lincoln County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.30 times the US outage time per person and 1.47 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 55 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

77 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Sephardest months

July and September made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 21, 2023, reached 3,385 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 39.5 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	12,405	6	1
2016	1,869	3	0
2017	55,901	4	1
2018	14,504	18	1
2019	11,075	22	0
2020	14,403	18	0
2021	17,326	15	0
2022	33,459	20	1
2023	70,154	11	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
Jul 21, 2023	39.5	3,385	62,014
Sep 11, 2017	76.8	2,028	54,844
Jan 3, 2022	16.5	2,118	15,444
Oct 4, 2015	9.2	2,113	9,059
Jan 3, 2022	2.0	3,821	5,225

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.