Power outage history
Spalding County Georgia
2.3hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
142nd most of 156 in Georgia 65% below the national median
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 Spalding's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 10 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Spalding, hours without power per customer
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12, 2023 | Tornadoes | 7,797 | 24% | 6.0 d | 5.1 d | 274k |
| Sep 11, 2017 | Hurricane Irma | 8,627 | 27% | 3.4 d | 2.3 d | 216k |
| Jun 25, 2023 | No storm report | 3,589 | 11% | 17 h | 11 h | 20k |
| Feb 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,635 | 8% | 17 h | 16 h | 18k |
| Apr 10, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,397 | 4% | 12 h | – | 8.3k |
| Oct 23, 2018 | No storm report | 508 | 2% | 9.5 h | – | 4.8k |
| Apr 19, 2019 | No storm report | 1,692 | 5% | 2.8 h | 12 h | 4.1k |
| Aug 25, 2020 | Flooding | 815 | 3% | 5.8 h | – | 4.0k |
| Dec 29, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,864 | 6% | 3.0 h | 3.0 h | 4.0k |
| Feb 17, 2023 | No storm report | 1,067 | 3% | 4.2 h | – | 3.9k |
| Sep 28, 2019 | No storm report | 799 | 3% | 4.8 h | – | 3.6k |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 674 | 2% | 5.2 h | – | 3.5k |
| Jul 23, 2024 | No storm report | 904 | 3% | 3.5 h | – | 3.1k |
| Jun 15, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 837 | 3% | 5.2 h | – | 3.1k |
| Aug 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,690 | 5% | 2.0 h | 6.8 h | 2.9k |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 1,160 | 4% | 3.8 h | – | 2.8k |
| Apr 3, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 991 | 3% | 3.2 h | – | 2.8k |
| Jul 30, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,789 | 6% | 3.0 h | 3.8 h | 2.8k |
| Apr 7, 2025 | Tornadoes | 5,912 | 18% | 2.0 h | 30 min | 2.6k |
| Apr 10, 2024 | No storm report | 1,262 | 4% | 4.2 h | – | 2.5k |
| Aug 26, 2020 | No storm report | 1,377 | 4% | 1.8 h | – | 2.4k |
| Oct 9, 2021 | No storm report | 322 | 1% | 8.0 h | – | 2.3k |
| Jun 22, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 586 | 2% | 4.0 h | – | 2.2k |
| Oct 29, 2020 | Hurricane Zeta | 834 | 3% | 4.0 h | – | 2.0k |
| Jul 11, 2016 | No storm report | 1,096 | 3% | 2.5 h | – | 1.8k |
| Mar 19, 2017 | No storm report | 1,421 | 4% | 1.2 h | – | 1.8k |
| Jul 3, 2023 | No storm report | 2,340 | 7% | 48 min | 30 min | 1.8k |
| Nov 27, 2022 | No storm report | 1,394 | 4% | 1.2 h | – | 1.7k |
| Jan 3, 2022 | No storm report | 433 | 1% | 4.8 h | – | 1.5k |
| Jun 15, 2015 | No storm report | 1,410 | 4% | 1.0 h | – | 1.4k |
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.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Spalding from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tornadoes 65%
- No storm on record 20%
- Thunderstorms 12%
- Tropical storm 1.4%
- Flooding 0.9%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Spalding
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 |
| Coweta-Fayette El Member Corp | Cooperative | 333 | 119 | 2.36 | 13.2 | 84k |
| 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
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 32,004 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 →