Power Out Map
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Power outage history

Banks County Georgia

6.8hours

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

92nd most of 156 in Georgia close to the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Irma · Sep 11, 2017 65% of customers out · 90% back in 3.9 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 6.8h / yr State average 6.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 1.3 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 17hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.2days Hurricane Irma, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 36% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 15 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 11,560 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 Banks'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

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 15 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Banks, hours without power per customer

BanksUS median countyGeorgia average
0 10 20 30 40 50 12 ’15 1.1 ’16 39 ’17 2.6 ’18 3.4 ’19 15 ’20 2.7 ’21 12 ’22 4.3 ’23 6.7 ’24 8.4 ’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 7,511 65% 5.2 d 3.9 d 429k
Jan 16, 2022 No storm report 3,569 31% 2.3 d 34 h 84k
Feb 16, 2015 Ice storm 2,628 23% 2.1 d 42 h 71k
Jun 7, 2025 No storm report 3,722 32% 41 h 27 h 56k
Oct 29, 2020 Hurricane Zeta 3,195 28% 2.3 d 37 h 55k
Sep 27, 2024 Hurricane Helene 5,208 45% 43 h 17 h 51k
Oct 4, 2015 Windstorm 3,654 32% 31 h 14 h 46k
Apr 13, 2020 Tornadoes 4,455 39% 36 h 31 h 45k
May 7, 2020 No storm report 567 5% 3.8 d – 36k
Jun 25, 2023 No storm report 1,617 14% 24 h 19 h 27k
Jun 22, 2019 Thunderstorms 1,425 12% 14 h 14 h 13k
Dec 23, 2022 No storm report 1,122 10% 15 h 13 h 7.1k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +6h 90% by +28h

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

  • No storm on record 64%
  • Tropical storm 21%
  • Tornadoes 8.4%
  • Thunderstorms 5.3%
  • Winter storm 1.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Banks

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
Hart Electric Member Corp Cooperative 306 83 1.58 13.1 31k

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 11,560 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 →