Power Out Map
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Power outage history

Butts County Georgia

3.7hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

124th most of 156 in Georgia 44% below the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Irma · Sep 11, 2017 48% of customers out · 90% back in 3.1 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 3.7h / yr State average 6.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 1.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 4.1days Jan 12, 2023, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 59% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 11 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 14,787 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

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 Butts's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 11 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Butts, hours without power per customer

ButtsUS median countyGeorgia average
0 5 10 15 20 0.3 ’15 1.5 ’16 14 ’17 1.5 ’18 1.2 ’19 1.7 ’20 2.7 ’21 3.1 ’22 11 ’23 3.3 ’24 4.7 ’25 GA 6.7 US 6.6

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 7,126 48% 3.5 d 3.1 d 189k
Jan 12, 2023 Tornadoes 4,190 28% 4.1 d 3.1 d 132k
Feb 16, 2025 Tornadoes 2,939 20% 36 h 19 h 28k
Dec 29, 2024 No storm report 3,790 26% 11 h 6.2 h 13k
Jun 25, 2023 No storm report 1,163 8% 16 h 16 h 12k
Aug 20, 2021 No storm report 4,993 34% 2.0 h 1.8 h 7.7k
Apr 8, 2021 No storm report 844 6% 9.5 h 15 h 7.6k
Oct 29, 2020 Hurricane Zeta 1,198 8% 9.0 h 8.2 h 7.2k
Jun 15, 2022 Thunderstorms 5,651 38% 6.5 h 2.0 h 7.0k
Jun 17, 2016 Thunderstorms 2,130 14% 6.2 h 2.5 h 6.9k
Aug 11, 2024 No storm report 765 5% 9.0 h 9.0 h 6.3k
Jun 26, 2025 Thunderstorms 880 6% 13 h 12 h 6.3k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +6h 90% by +10h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Butts from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Tornadoes 47%
  • No storm on record 41%
  • Thunderstorms 8.5%
  • Tropical storm 3.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Butts

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
Snapping Shoals El Member Corp Cooperative 175 100 1.45 13.0 106k
Central Georgia El Member Corp Cooperative 168 77 1.83 13.1 63k
City of Jackson GA – – – – 16k

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

Across Georgia

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Georgia counties →

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 14,787 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 →