Power outage history
Greene County Georgia
7.3hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
90th most of 156 in Georgia close to 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 Greene's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 15 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Greene, 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 | 8,932 | 74% | 5.0 d | 4.0 d | 387k |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 5,090 | 42% | 2.8 d | 18 h | 91k |
| Jul 21, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,354 | 11% | 30 h | 28 h | 26k |
| Oct 10, 2018 | Hurricane Michael | 1,873 | 15% | 19 h | 9.5 h | 18k |
| Jan 3, 2022 | No storm report | 1,748 | 14% | 18 h | 9.0 h | 16k |
| Feb 7, 2020 | No storm report | 230 | 2% | 3.7 d | – | 15k |
| Jan 10, 2025 | No storm report | 1,512 | 12% | 16 h | 13 h | 14k |
| Aug 9, 2020 | No storm report | 2,235 | 18% | 16 h | 16 h | 14k |
| May 11, 2025 | No storm report | 610 | 5% | 38 h | 19 h | 13k |
| Jul 20, 2023 | No storm report | 3,442 | 28% | 15 h | 2.2 h | 12k |
| Apr 11, 2024 | No storm report | 1,491 | 12% | 12 h | 5.2 h | 10.0k |
| Jun 9, 2016 | No storm report | 2,608 | 22% | 5.8 h | 1.8 h | 7.2k |
| Dec 23, 2022 | No storm report | 1,172 | 10% | 11 h | 10 h | 7.0k |
| Jul 14, 2024 | No storm report | 1,249 | 10% | 6.8 h | 4.0 h | 6.9k |
| Jun 7, 2020 | No storm report | 2,302 | 19% | 3.2 h | 2.5 h | 6.3k |
| Apr 17, 2018 | No storm report | 1,788 | 15% | 4.0 h | 4.0 h | 6.1k |
| Dec 30, 2018 | No storm report | 1,546 | 13% | 4.8 h | 4.8 h | 5.9k |
| Oct 29, 2020 | Hurricane Zeta | 1,773 | 15% | 7.2 h | 5.0 h | 5.9k |
| Apr 4, 2021 | No storm report | 257 | 2% | 26 h | – | 5.9k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | No storm report | 1,407 | 12% | 5.5 h | 4.2 h | 5.7k |
| Apr 20, 2025 | No storm report | 285 | 2% | 20 h | – | 5.6k |
| Feb 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 916 | 8% | 11 h | 7.5 h | 5.5k |
| Feb 24, 2016 | No storm report | 1,449 | 12% | 5.0 h | 3.8 h | 5.4k |
| Jan 2, 2017 | No storm report | 2,771 | 23% | 2.8 h | 1.8 h | 5.3k |
| Jul 19, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,398 | 12% | 4.5 h | 2.5 h | 5.2k |
| Dec 24, 2020 | No storm report | 1,188 | 10% | 8.0 h | 6.5 h | 5.1k |
| Mar 21, 2017 | No storm report | 638 | 5% | 8.5 h | 5.8 h | 4.8k |
| Feb 12, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 982 | 8% | 9.5 h | 5.8 h | 4.4k |
| Mar 21, 2018 | No storm report | 601 | 5% | 16 h | – | 4.3k |
| Oct 30, 2020 | Hurricane Zeta | 426 | 4% | 8.2 h | – | 3.5k |
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 Greene from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 68%
- Tropical storm 24%
- Thunderstorms 8.1%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Greene
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 |
| Walton Electric Member Corp | Cooperative | 307 | 164 | 2.65 | 14.1 | 134k |
| Rayle Electric Membership Corp | Cooperative | 474 | 303 | 4.12 | 14.6 | 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
- Taliaferro 38 h
- Hancock 25 h
- Oglethorpe 8.8 h
- Putnam 8.1 h
- Greene (this county) 7.3 h
- Morgan 4.7 h
- Oconee 2.1 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 12,117 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 →