Power outage history
Lamar County Georgia
5.0hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
113th most of 156 in Georgia 24% 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 Lamar's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 9.8 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Lamar, 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 | 4,814 | 39% | 3.5 d | 2.6 d | 223k |
| Feb 16, 2025 | No storm report | 4,596 | 37% | 23 h | 16 h | 39k |
| Jun 25, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 5,769 | 46% | 27 h | 12 h | 36k |
| Jan 12, 2023 | No storm report | 2,061 | 17% | 47 h | 47 h | 33k |
| Apr 10, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 3,057 | 24% | 21 h | 17 h | 22k |
| Dec 25, 2016 | No storm report | 435 | 3% | 43 h | – | 18k |
| Jun 3, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 1,878 | 15% | 23 h | 11 h | 12k |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 3,262 | 26% | 16 h | 8.5 h | 9.6k |
| Jan 3, 2022 | No storm report | 3,064 | 25% | 11 h | 7.5 h | 8.8k |
| Jan 8, 2017 | No storm report | 2,219 | 18% | 3.8 h | 4.8 h | 8.2k |
| Nov 27, 2022 | No storm report | 1,005 | 8% | 8.5 h | 4.0 h | 7.2k |
| Jul 2, 2023 | No storm report | 1,003 | 8% | 10 h | 9.5 h | 7.0k |
| Dec 29, 2024 | No storm report | 1,379 | 11% | 10 h | 7.8 h | 6.5k |
| Oct 29, 2020 | Hurricane Zeta | 1,379 | 11% | 9.2 h | 7.2 h | 6.4k |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,700 | 14% | 5.0 h | 4.5 h | 5.9k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | No storm report | 3,136 | 25% | 9.2 h | 4.8 h | 5.8k |
| Mar 12, 2022 | No storm report | 790 | 6% | 10 h | 9.8 h | 5.6k |
| May 2, 2023 | No storm report | 896 | 7% | 7.2 h | 6.0 h | 5.4k |
| Feb 6, 2023 | No storm report | 954 | 8% | 11 h | 10 h | 5.3k |
| Jul 30, 2023 | No storm report | 810 | 6% | 6.8 h | 3.2 h | 5.2k |
| Oct 11, 2018 | Hurricane Michael | 803 | 6% | 15 h | 12 h | 5.2k |
| Jun 20, 2025 | No storm report | 2,430 | 19% | 5.8 h | 6.0 h | 4.7k |
| Jun 15, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,093 | 9% | 8.2 h | 6.0 h | 4.6k |
| Aug 29, 2023 | No storm report | 891 | 7% | 5.5 h | 5.5 h | 4.5k |
| Apr 13, 2020 | Tornadoes | 1,870 | 15% | 4.8 h | 3.0 h | 4.4k |
| Jun 18, 2018 | No storm report | 545 | 4% | 7.8 h | – | 4.2k |
| Apr 10, 2024 | No storm report | 2,109 | 17% | 5.0 h | 2.0 h | 4.0k |
| May 4, 2017 | No storm report | 2,064 | 17% | 3.5 h | 3.2 h | 4.0k |
| Apr 14, 2019 | Tornadoes | 705 | 6% | 7.2 h | 4.5 h | 3.8k |
| Oct 11, 2015 | No storm report | 848 | 7% | 4.2 h | 3.5 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 Lamar from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 67%
- Thunderstorms 24%
- Tropical storm 6.9%
- Tornadoes 2.1%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Lamar
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 |
| Central Georgia El Member Corp | Cooperative | 168 | 77 | 1.83 | 13.1 | 63k |
| City of Barnesville | GA | – | – | – | – | 28k |
| Southern Rivers Energy | Cooperative | 774 | 251 | 3.59 | 16.4 | 21k |
| City of Griffin | Municipal | – | – | – | 14.9 | 14k |
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.
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 12,486 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 →