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

Power outage history

Heard County Georgia

7.8hours

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

88th most of 156 in Georgia 1.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Zeta · Oct 29, 2020 66% of customers out · 90% back in 46 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 7.8h / yr State average 6.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 4.3 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 3.5days Hurricane Zeta, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 54% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 22 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 5,960 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 Heard'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 22 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Heard, hours without power per customer

HeardUS median countyGeorgia average
0 5 10 15 20 25 ’15 1.4 ’16 7.2 ’17 3.1 ’18 3.3 ’19 22 ’20 6.5 ’21 4.5 ’22 9.0 ’23 5.6 ’24 9.0 ’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 3,952 66% 3.5 d 46 h 97k
Mar 25, 2021 Tornadoes 2,945 49% 44 h 24 h 26k
Mar 31, 2020 Thunderstorms 1,948 33% 33 h 48 min 11k
Sep 11, 2017 Hurricane Irma 1,568 26% 16 h 6.0 h 9.2k
Dec 9, 2017 Winter storm 741 12% 39 h 11 h 8.9k
Mar 15, 2025 Thunderstorms 896 15% 19 h 11 h 8.0k
Jun 30, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,421 24% 12 h 8.0 h 7.7k
Jan 11, 2020 No storm report 674 11% 20 h 8.8 h 5.5k
Jun 7, 2025 No storm report 747 13% 17 h 11 h 5.5k
May 4, 2022 No storm report 774 13% 7.0 h 6.8 h 5.2k
Aug 14, 2023 No storm report 1,119 19% 9.5 h 13 h 4.9k
Jun 28, 2016 No storm report 738 12% 6.5 h 6.5 h 4.8k

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 +12h

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 Heard from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 46%
  • Tropical storm 31%
  • Thunderstorms 13%
  • Tornadoes 9.2%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Heard

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
Coweta-Fayette El Member Corp Cooperative 333 119 2.36 13.2 84k
Carroll Electric Member Corp Cooperative 360 137 2.34 13.9 54k
Diverse Power Incorporated Cooperative 504 116 2.21 17.2 33k

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+

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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 5,960 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 →