Power Out Map
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Power outage history

McIntosh County Georgia

18hours

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

38th most of 156 in Georgia 2.7× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Helene · Sep 27, 2024 100% of customers out · 90% back in 4.8 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 18h / yr State average 6.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 4.6 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 6.6days Hurricane Irma, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 76% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 3.3 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 7,007 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 McIntosh'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 3.3 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

McIntosh, hours without power per customer

McIntoshUS median countyGeorgia average
0 20 40 60 80 100 1.8 ’15 48 ’16 49 ’17 9.4 ’18 4.2 ’19 5.8 ’20 6.0 ’21 5.8 ’22 20 ’23 80 ’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 7,007 100% 5.9 d 4.8 d 501k
Sep 11, 2017 Hurricane Irma 4,177 60% 6.6 d 5.1 d 332k
Oct 8, 2016 Hurricane Matthew 4,103 59% 5.0 d 3.8 d 188k
Oct 7, 2016 Hurricane Matthew 4,103 59% 24 h 24 h 80k
Aug 30, 2023 Hurricane Idalia 7,007 100% 39 h 23 h 63k
Jan 3, 2018 Winter storm 2,591 37% 31 h 28 h 53k
Sep 2, 2016 Hurricane Hermine 3,298 47% 40 h 23 h 50k
Jan 21, 2025 Winter storm 2,754 39% 44 h 10 h 30k
Jun 13, 2023 No storm report 2,096 30% 14 h 6.2 h 11k
Dec 10, 2023 No storm report 1,970 28% 7.2 h 6.2 h 8.3k
Aug 5, 2024 Hurricane Debby 1,026 15% 16 h 8.2 h 7.8k
Dec 24, 2020 No storm report 1,950 28% 6.5 h 3.8 h 7.0k

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 +14h

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

  • Tropical storm 64%
  • No storm on record 24%
  • Winter storm 8.9%
  • Thunderstorms 2.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving McIntosh

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
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+

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 7,007 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 →