Madison County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Madison County, Georgia had 6 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.38 times the US outage time per person and 0.42 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 132 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

70 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Aprhardest months

September and April made up 43% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 3,262 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 69.8 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	38,544	20	2
2016	3,920	12	0
2017	102,390	18	1
2018	7,767	22	0
2019	10,064	10	1
2020	32,486	30	1
2021	12,164	17	0
2022	27,418	27	1
2023	35,732	20	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
Sep 11, 2017	69.8	3,262	86,458
Feb 17, 2015	16.0	1,647	17,918
Aug 5, 2023	5.8	1,980	11,385
Oct 4, 2015	10.2	2,314	11,138
Dec 23, 2022	5.5	4,482	10,412

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.