Power Out Map
– 0% of Gordon out 0 customers out in Georgia

Power outage history

Gordon County Georgia

4.7hours

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

116th most of 156 in Georgia 28% below the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Zeta · Oct 29, 2020 30% of customers out · 90% back in 32 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 4.7h / yr State average 6.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 1.5 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 6hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 3.1days Jul 20, 2023, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 38% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 8.0 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 31,723 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 Gordon'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

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 8.0 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Gordon, hours without power per customer

GordonUS median countyGeorgia average
0 2 4 6 8 10 0.7 ’15 0.8 ’16 5.2 ’17 2.7 ’18 3.2 ’19 8.0 ’20 3.9 ’21 4.8 ’22 5.7 ’23 5.2 ’24 4.6 ’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
Oct 29, 2020 Hurricane Zeta 9,380 30% 2.7 d 32 h 133k
Jul 20, 2023 Thunderstorms 3,691 12% 3.1 d 3.0 d 72k
Dec 8, 2017 Winter storm 1,573 5% 2.1 d – 37k
Jul 30, 2024 Thunderstorms 5,416 17% 23 h 18 h 27k
Feb 4, 2021 No storm report 12,630 40% 2.2 h 12 h 25k
Jan 22, 2017 Flooding 3,536 11% 12 h 10 h 24k
Mar 21, 2017 Thunderstorms 2,390 8% 19 h 19 h 20k
Dec 24, 2022 No storm report 6,230 20% 5.0 h 1.8 h 19k
Jan 11, 2020 Thunderstorms 3,835 12% 18 h 11 h 19k
Feb 4, 2021 No storm report 14,718 46% 2.8 h 5.5 h 18k
Jul 8, 2022 No storm report 2,095 7% 18 h 17 h 17k
May 27, 2024 No storm report 1,739 5% 16 h 14 h 14k

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 +4h 90% by +14h

When it happens

The outage clock

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

00061218 Jan inside

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

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

  • No storm on record 62%
  • Thunderstorms 18%
  • Tropical storm 17%
  • Tornadoes 2.9%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Gordon

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
North Georgia Elec Member Corp Cooperative 215 176 2.35 12.9 91k
Amicalola Electric Member Corp Cooperative 728 531 3.85 13.7 52k
City of Calhoun Municipal 117 44 1.04 14.0 5.0k

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 31,723 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 →