Power outage history
Fayette County Georgia
2.1hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
149th most of 156 in Georgia 68% 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 Fayette's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.9 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Fayette, 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 | 10,536 | 12% | 2.4 d | 29 h | 261k |
| Oct 29, 2020 | Hurricane Zeta | 11,840 | 13% | 34 h | 13 h | 129k |
| Mar 31, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 12,933 | 15% | 23 h | 5.0 h | 62k |
| Feb 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 9,041 | 10% | 15 h | 10 h | 61k |
| Jul 25, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 2,780 | 3% | 21 h | – | 46k |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 5,641 | 6% | 10 h | 7.0 h | 36k |
| Jan 10, 2025 | No storm report | 5,355 | 6% | 12 h | 19 h | 31k |
| Jul 30, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 4,615 | 5% | 11 h | 10 h | 24k |
| Apr 10, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 3,807 | 4% | 9.5 h | – | 22k |
| Jun 25, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 5,450 | 6% | 7.8 h | 5.8 h | 22k |
| Jan 12, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 8,039 | 9% | 4.8 h | 5.0 h | 20k |
| Jun 24, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 6,132 | 7% | 7.5 h | 7.5 h | 19k |
| Aug 17, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 12,034 | 14% | 3.8 h | 3.5 h | 18k |
| Aug 24, 2019 | No storm report | 5,069 | 6% | 5.5 h | 2.0 h | 17k |
| Jun 15, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 3,858 | 4% | 5.8 h | – | 17k |
| May 28, 2021 | No storm report | 6,318 | 7% | 8.8 h | 8.2 h | 16k |
| Jun 7, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 3,664 | 4% | 5.5 h | – | 16k |
| May 23, 2022 | No storm report | 3,500 | 4% | 6.8 h | – | 14k |
| Dec 26, 2017 | No storm report | 1,870 | 2% | 8.8 h | – | 14k |
| Mar 20, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 1,901 | 2% | 7.5 h | – | 9.5k |
| May 18, 2021 | No storm report | 3,647 | 4% | 2.5 h | – | 9.1k |
| Mar 31, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 15,677 | 18% | 2.5 h | 1.5 h | 8.5k |
| Mar 16, 2023 | No storm report | 12,077 | 14% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 8.3k |
| May 1, 2023 | No storm report | 11,734 | 13% | 48 min | 48 min | 8.0k |
| Dec 10, 2019 | No storm report | 2,596 | 3% | 3.0 h | – | 6.9k |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 3,505 | 4% | 3.0 h | – | 6.8k |
| Aug 28, 2023 | No storm report | 2,675 | 3% | 2.5 h | – | 6.5k |
| Jun 22, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 1,790 | 2% | 5.0 h | – | 6.2k |
| Dec 14, 2025 | No storm report | 1,213 | 1% | 6.5 h | – | 5.6k |
| Apr 7, 2025 | Tornadoes | 1,649 | 2% | 4.2 h | – | 5.6k |
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 Fayette from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 47%
- No storm on record 36%
- Tropical storm 16%
- Tornadoes 0.8%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Fayette
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 |
| GreyStone Power Corporation | Cooperative | 241 | 81 | 2.28 | 12.6 | 143k |
| Coweta-Fayette El Member Corp | Cooperative | 333 | 119 | 2.36 | 13.2 | 84k |
| Central Georgia El Member Corp | Cooperative | 168 | 77 | 1.83 | 13.1 | 63k |
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
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 88,729 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 →