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

Power outage history

Oglethorpe County Georgia

8.8hours

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

77th most of 156 in Georgia 1.3× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Helene · Sep 27, 2024 53% of customers out · 90% back in 2.3 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 8.8h / yr State average 6.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.8 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 4hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 4.3days Hurricane Irma, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 45% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 25 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 8,000 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 Oglethorpe'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

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 25 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Oglethorpe, hours without power per customer

OglethorpeUS median countyGeorgia average
0 10 20 30 2.4 ’15 0.6 ’16 6.2 ’17 3.4 ’18 4.2 ’19 6.2 ’20 6.8 ’21 7.9 ’22 8.6 ’23 25 ’24 9.1 ’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 27, 2024 Hurricane Helene 4,244 53% 3.3 d 2.3 d 143k
Jul 20, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,050 26% 2.1 d 42 h 39k
Sep 11, 2017 Hurricane Irma 597 7% 4.3 d 3.9 d 39k
Jan 3, 2022 No storm report 2,536 32% 32 h 10 h 26k
Feb 28, 2021 No storm report 1,219 15% 17 h 48 min 21k
Feb 16, 2015 Ice storm 1,028 13% 18 h 4.0 h 11k
Jun 7, 2025 No storm report 1,553 19% 19 h 13 h 9.7k
Jan 1, 2021 No storm report 161 2% 2.7 d – 8.5k
Dec 23, 2022 No storm report 1,379 17% 13 h 5.8 h 8.0k
Feb 16, 2025 No storm report 1,667 21% 11 h 8.5 h 7.8k
May 30, 2025 No storm report 1,490 19% 5.2 h 1.0 h 7.3k
Oct 29, 2020 Hurricane Zeta 1,169 15% 12 h 8.2 h 7.2k

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 +4h 90% by +10h

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

  • No storm on record 55%
  • Tropical storm 33%
  • Thunderstorms 11%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Oglethorpe

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
Jackson Electric Member Corp Cooperative 217 74 1.22 11.9 246k
Rayle Electric Membership Corp Cooperative 474 303 4.12 14.6 16k

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 8,000 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 →