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

Power outage history

Mitchell County Georgia

8.9hours

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

74th most of 156 in Georgia 1.4× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Michael · Oct 10, 2018 23% of customers out · 90% back in 5.7 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 8.9h / yr State average 6.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.5 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 5hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 6.0days Hurricane Michael, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 71% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 20 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 12,078 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 Mitchell's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 20 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Mitchell, hours without power per customer

MitchellUS median countyGeorgia average
0 5 10 15 20 25 0.5 ’15 0.8 ’16 5.5 ’17 20 ’18 3.1 ’19 11 ’20 5.8 ’21 6.1 ’22 12 ’23 7.9 ’24 5.0 ’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 10, 2018 Hurricane Michael 2,810 23% 6.0 d 5.7 d 227k
Jun 14, 2023 Thunderstorms 3,626 30% 44 h 34 h 75k
Apr 23, 2020 Tornadoes 4,155 34% 31 h 30 h 73k
Sep 11, 2017 Hurricane Irma 1,368 11% 48 h 45 h 50k
Jan 9, 2024 Thunderstorms 4,506 37% 18 h 9.8 h 31k
Jun 14, 2022 Thunderstorms 2,557 21% 12 h 7.5 h 15k
Mar 27, 2024 Thunderstorms 1,278 11% 19 h 24 h 12k
Apr 24, 2021 No storm report 1,201 10% 16 h 13 h 8.6k
May 25, 2019 No storm report 1,443 12% 5.8 h 9.2 h 8.0k
Jun 13, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,802 15% 7.8 h 6.0 h 7.8k
Apr 13, 2020 Thunderstorms 1,144 9% 14 h 11 h 7.7k
May 4, 2021 Thunderstorms 1,404 12% 13 h 10 h 7.5k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +4h 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 Mitchell from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Tropical storm 34%
  • No storm on record 29%
  • Thunderstorms 26%
  • Tornadoes 11%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Mitchell

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
City of Camilla GA – – – 12.2 26k
Mitchell Electric Member Corp Cooperative 410 349 3.75 17.1 21k
Grady Electric Membership Corp Cooperative 234 234 2.54 15.0 19k

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 12,078 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 →