Power outage history
Tift County Georgia
25hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
25th most of 156 in Georgia 3.9× 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 Tift's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 6.6 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Tift, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 24,544 | 100% | 14.8 d | 10.8 d | 3.2M |
| Aug 30, 2023 | Hurricane Idalia | 17,213 | 70% | 3.0 d | 22 h | 357k |
| Oct 10, 2018 | Hurricane Michael | 10,161 | 41% | 3.0 d | 2.6 d | 285k |
| Sep 11, 2017 | Hurricane Irma | 10,285 | 42% | 3.2 d | 2.0 d | 273k |
| Aug 4, 2024 | Hurricane Debby | 9,603 | 39% | 2.8 d | 40 h | 239k |
| May 13, 2024 | No storm report | 15,695 | 64% | 16 h | 8.5 h | 70k |
| Jun 26, 2025 | No storm report | 6,714 | 27% | 12 h | 5.0 h | 30k |
| May 15, 2024 | No storm report | 1,283 | 5% | 28 h | 20 h | 29k |
| May 27, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 2,994 | 12% | 13 h | 8.0 h | 26k |
| May 4, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 9,698 | 40% | 7.5 h | 4.8 h | 22k |
| Sep 2, 2016 | Hurricane Hermine | 2,790 | 11% | 11 h | 8.8 h | 19k |
| Mar 21, 2024 | No storm report | 988 | 4% | 17 h | – | 16k |
| Aug 2, 2024 | No storm report | 4,714 | 19% | 9.8 h | 7.8 h | 16k |
| Nov 6, 2024 | No storm report | 2,206 | 9% | 14 h | 5.8 h | 10k |
| Jul 9, 2025 | No storm report | 3,707 | 15% | 4.0 h | 2.5 h | 9.7k |
| Feb 29, 2024 | No storm report | 1,197 | 5% | 8.2 h | – | 9.4k |
| May 17, 2024 | No storm report | 1,968 | 8% | 5.0 h | 4.0 h | 7.9k |
| Dec 11, 2024 | No storm report | 1,689 | 7% | 11 h | 1.8 h | 7.7k |
| Jul 29, 2025 | No storm report | 5,680 | 23% | 3.2 h | 2.2 h | 7.6k |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 907 | 4% | 8.0 h | – | 7.2k |
| Jun 9, 2025 | No storm report | 4,906 | 20% | 3.8 h | 1.5 h | 6.8k |
| Jul 17, 2024 | No storm report | 1,718 | 7% | 7.8 h | 12 min | 6.8k |
| Jul 5, 2023 | No storm report | 3,873 | 16% | 2.0 h | 1.5 h | 6.6k |
| Mar 18, 2024 | No storm report | 836 | 3% | 7.0 h | – | 5.8k |
| May 21, 2024 | No storm report | 2,044 | 8% | 3.0 h | 3.0 h | 5.7k |
| Dec 10, 2025 | No storm report | 820 | 3% | 7.0 h | – | 5.4k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 2,627 | 11% | 7.5 h | 3.2 h | 5.2k |
| Jul 30, 2024 | No storm report | 1,129 | 5% | 5.5 h | – | 5.2k |
| Jul 16, 2025 | No storm report | 929 | 4% | 5.2 h | – | 4.4k |
| Jul 8, 2024 | No storm report | 1,673 | 7% | 3.0 h | 3.0 h | 4.1k |
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 Tift from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tropical storm 86%
- No storm on record 12%
- Thunderstorms 1.8%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Tift
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 |
| Colquitt Electric Membership Corp | Cooperative | – | – | – | 13.9 | 66k |
| Mitchell Electric Member Corp | Cooperative | 410 | 349 | 3.75 | 17.1 | 21k |
| Irwin Electric Membership Corp | Cooperative | – | – | – | 16.5 | 11k |
| City of Adel | Municipal | – | – | – | 14.1 | 2.3k |
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.
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 24,544 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 →