Power outage history
Barrow County Georgia
1.5hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
153rd most of 156 in Georgia 77% below the national median
Every day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Barrow's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.1 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Barrow, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
| Began | Storm | Peak out | Share | Lasted | 90% restored | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 2017 | Hurricane Irma | 14,449 | 24% | 3.3 d | 2.2 d | 394k |
| Feb 16, 2015 | Ice storm | 6,776 | 11% | 38 h | 29 h | 100k |
| Jul 20, 2023 | No storm report | 5,308 | 9% | 36 h | 24 h | 75k |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 4,969 | 8% | 13 h | 7.0 h | 25k |
| Jun 7, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 4,127 | 7% | 8.0 h | 8.8 h | 21k |
| Oct 29, 2020 | Hurricane Zeta | 3,577 | 6% | 11 h | 11 h | 18k |
| Dec 23, 2022 | No storm report | 2,660 | 4% | 7.2 h | – | 13k |
| Apr 13, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 2,325 | 4% | 5.8 h | – | 13k |
| Jun 27, 2020 | No storm report | 5,798 | 10% | 4.8 h | 5.2 h | 12k |
| Mar 21, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 1,991 | 3% | 8.0 h | – | 10k |
| Aug 17, 2024 | No storm report | 1,702 | 3% | 6.8 h | – | 9.2k |
| May 9, 2024 | No storm report | 3,990 | 7% | 4.5 h | 4.5 h | 8.5k |
| Sep 10, 2019 | No storm report | 2,075 | 3% | 4.2 h | – | 7.7k |
| Jan 3, 2022 | No storm report | 2,293 | 4% | 5.2 h | – | 7.2k |
| Nov 18, 2019 | No storm report | 2,841 | 5% | 2.5 h | – | 7.1k |
| Nov 13, 2018 | No storm report | 7,251 | 12% | 3.0 h | 3.5 h | 6.5k |
| Aug 7, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 3,700 | 6% | 4.2 h | 4.2 h | 6.2k |
| Jan 11, 2025 | Winter storm | 1,908 | 3% | 6.5 h | – | 6.0k |
| Feb 16, 2021 | No storm report | 2,168 | 4% | 3.5 h | – | 5.8k |
| Jun 17, 2025 | No storm report | 1,900 | 3% | 3.5 h | – | 5.6k |
| Oct 5, 2024 | No storm report | 1,557 | 3% | 4.8 h | – | 5.4k |
| Jul 21, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 2,996 | 5% | 2.0 h | – | 4.8k |
| May 20, 2017 | No storm report | 3,727 | 6% | 1.2 h | 12 min | 4.6k |
| Jun 10, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,311 | 4% | 2.5 h | – | 4.3k |
| Jul 15, 2024 | No storm report | 1,705 | 3% | 2.8 h | – | 4.0k |
| Sep 17, 2020 | Hurricane Sally | 1,345 | 2% | 5.0 h | – | 4.0k |
| Feb 16, 2021 | No storm report | 1,156 | 2% | 3.8 h | – | 4.0k |
| Jul 20, 2022 | No storm report | 1,357 | 2% | 3.8 h | – | 3.8k |
| Oct 21, 2025 | No storm report | 2,113 | 3% | 1.8 h | – | 3.7k |
| Jan 26, 2025 | No storm report | 1,053 | 2% | 3.2 h | – | 3.4k |
After the peak
How fast the lights come back
Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Barrow from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 71%
- Thunderstorms 14%
- Tropical storm 12%
- Winter storm 2.2%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Barrow
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Georgia territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia Power Co | Investor Owned | 287 | 155 | 1.83 | 16.3 | 2.5M |
| Jackson Electric Member Corp | Cooperative | 217 | 74 | 1.22 | 11.9 | 246k |
| Walton Electric Member Corp | Cooperative | 307 | 164 | 2.65 | 14.1 | 134k |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 61,060 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →