Power outage history
Brooks County Georgia
11hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
60th most of 156 in Georgia 1.7× 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 Brooks's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.4 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Brooks, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 2023 | Hurricane Idalia | 7,555 | 100% | 6.2 d | 3.8 d | 420k |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 920 | 12% | 6.8 d | 5.5 d | 116k |
| Sep 11, 2017 | Hurricane Irma | 914 | 12% | 3.6 d | 3.3 d | 52k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | No storm report | 4,772 | 63% | 24 h | 9.0 h | 36k |
| Oct 10, 2018 | Hurricane Michael | 820 | 11% | 27 h | 7.8 h | 12k |
| Aug 5, 2024 | Hurricane Debby | 857 | 11% | 31 h | 25 h | 11k |
| Jan 22, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 675 | 9% | 27 h | 25 h | 7.8k |
| Sep 2, 2016 | Hurricane Hermine | 546 | 7% | 20 h | 15 h | 7.7k |
| Mar 21, 2024 | No storm report | 1,692 | 22% | 3.0 h | 2.8 h | 3.9k |
| Nov 24, 2021 | No storm report | 248 | 3% | 9.8 h | – | 2.0k |
| Sep 8, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 917 | 12% | 4.5 h | 4.0 h | 2.0k |
| Nov 19, 2024 | No storm report | 396 | 5% | 5.0 h | 9.8 h | 2.0k |
| Jan 3, 2022 | No storm report | 409 | 5% | 4.5 h | 4.5 h | 1.8k |
| Apr 19, 2019 | No storm report | 256 | 3% | 7.2 h | – | 1.7k |
| Jul 1, 2020 | No storm report | 405 | 5% | 4.0 h | 4.0 h | 1.6k |
| Jun 14, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 165 | 2% | 9.5 h | – | 1.5k |
| Dec 13, 2023 | No storm report | 515 | 7% | 2.8 h | 2.8 h | 1.4k |
| Aug 14, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 411 | 5% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 1.3k |
| Jan 22, 2017 | Tornadoes | 249 | 3% | 8.0 h | – | 1.2k |
| Jan 26, 2024 | No storm report | 372 | 5% | 5.5 h | – | 1.2k |
| Apr 11, 2024 | Flooding | 398 | 5% | 3.0 h | 10 h | 1.2k |
| Sep 8, 2023 | No storm report | 402 | 5% | 3.2 h | 3.5 h | 1.1k |
| May 4, 2019 | No storm report | 199 | 3% | 5.5 h | – | 1.1k |
| Mar 23, 2024 | No storm report | 793 | 11% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 991 |
| Dec 2, 2023 | No storm report | 1,738 | 23% | 6.0 h | 30 min | 886 |
| Jan 6, 2024 | No storm report | 353 | 5% | 2.5 h | – | 882 |
| Apr 27, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 209 | 3% | 4.5 h | – | 880 |
| Jan 16, 2024 | No storm report | 576 | 8% | 1.5 h | 1.0 h | 862 |
| Dec 17, 2023 | No storm report | 405 | 5% | 2.0 h | 1.8 h | 808 |
| May 25, 2019 | No storm report | 244 | 3% | 4.2 h | – | 782 |
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 Brooks from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tropical storm 86%
- No storm on record 13%
- Thunderstorms 1.2%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Brooks
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 |
| Colquitt Electric Membership Corp | Cooperative | – | – | – | 13.9 | 66k |
| City of Quitman | GA | – | – | – | – | 23k |
| Grady Electric Membership Corp | Cooperative | 234 | 234 | 2.54 | 15.0 | 19k |
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.
Next door
Neighbouring counties
- Madison, FL 43 h
- Jefferson, FL 39 h
- Lowndes 27 h
- Brooks (this county) 11 h
- Colquitt 9.1 h
- Cook 7.9 h
- Thomas 4.0 h
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 7,555 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 →