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

Power outage history

Pike County Georgia

6.0hours

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

104th most of 156 in Georgia close to the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Irma · Sep 11, 2017 46% of customers out · 90% back in 2.8 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 6.0h / yr State average 6.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 5.0 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 3.4days Hurricane Irma, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 40% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 12 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 10,373 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 Pike'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

2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 12 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Pike, hours without power per customer

PikeUS median countyGeorgia average
0 5 10 15 20 25 1.4 ’15 4.0 ’16 20 ’17 3.6 ’18 2.9 ’19 4.4 ’20 2.5 ’21 6.8 ’22 11 ’23 5.9 ’24 12 ’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 11, 2017 Hurricane Irma 4,799 46% 3.4 d 2.8 d 182k
Feb 16, 2025 Thunderstorms 4,084 39% 29 h 18 h 45k
Apr 10, 2025 Thunderstorms 3,598 35% 22 h 19 h 29k
Aug 3, 2023 No storm report 2,017 19% 19 h 9.5 h 18k
Jan 12, 2023 Tornadoes 2,692 26% 38 h 8.8 h 18k
Apr 2, 2016 No storm report 241 2% 2.4 d – 13k
Sep 27, 2024 Hurricane Helene 1,757 17% 16 h 7.8 h 13k
Jun 25, 2023 No storm report 2,111 20% 11 h 8.8 h 12k
Oct 11, 2018 Hurricane Michael 1,161 11% 12 h 5.0 h 8.8k
Feb 25, 2016 No storm report 787 8% 12 h 19 h 8.6k
Jul 11, 2021 No storm report 1,574 15% 16 h 13 h 8.1k
Jun 23, 2024 No storm report 2,430 23% 4.0 h 6.0 h 7.3k

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.

00061218 Jan inside

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Pike from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 60%
  • Thunderstorms 26%
  • Tropical storm 7.4%
  • Tornadoes 5.0%
  • Flooding 1.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Pike

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
Upson Elec Member Corp GA – – – 11.2 115k
Central Georgia El Member Corp Cooperative 168 77 1.83 13.1 63k
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.

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 10,373 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 →