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

Power outage history

Long County Georgia

28hours

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

16th most of 156 in Georgia 4.3× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Helene · Sep 27, 2024 100% of customers out · 90% back in 8.2 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 28h / yr State average 6.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 9.9 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 16.0days Hurricane Helene, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 81% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 7.0 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 5,091 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 Long'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

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 7.0 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Long, hours without power per customer

LongUS median countyGeorgia average
0 20 40 60 0.8 ’15 23 ’16 11 ’17 5.4 ’18 8.0 ’19 7.4 ’20 6.3 ’21 7.3 ’22 12 ’23 167 ’24 11 ’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
Sep 26, 2024 Hurricane Helene 5,091 100% 16.0 d 8.2 d 794k
Oct 8, 2016 Hurricane Matthew 1,870 37% 3.0 d 44 h 79k
Sep 11, 2017 Hurricane Irma 1,291 25% 3.2 d 2.1 d 49k
Oct 7, 2016 Hurricane Matthew 2,051 40% 18 h 16 h 24k
Aug 30, 2023 Hurricane Idalia 3,283 64% 23 h 8.8 h 19k
Apr 13, 2020 Tornadoes 2,087 41% 15 h 10 h 16k
Aug 21, 2025 Thunderstorms 1,849 36% 13 h 8.0 h 15k
Sep 2, 2016 Hurricane Hermine 633 12% 22 h 19 h 9.8k
Dec 10, 2023 No storm report 751 15% 14 h 13 h 9.0k
Jul 22, 2023 No storm report 2,506 49% 6.2 h 4.0 h 7.7k
Jan 3, 2022 No storm report 1,379 27% 10 h 3.8 h 6.6k
Jul 20, 2024 No storm report 1,923 38% 8.2 h 4.2 h 6.2k

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

  • Tropical storm 77%
  • No storm on record 19%
  • Thunderstorms 3.2%
  • Tornadoes 1.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Long

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
Canoochee Electric Member Corp Cooperative – – – 14.2 25k
Coastal Electric Member Corp Cooperative 228 199 2.47 14.4 21k

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 5,091 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 →