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

Power outage history

Bleckley County Georgia

4.9hours

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

114th most of 156 in Georgia 26% below the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Irma · Sep 11, 2017 52% of customers out · 90% back in 2.3 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 4.9h / yr State average 6.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 1.4 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 5.4days Hurricane Helene, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 86% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 18 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 5,492 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 Bleckley'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

2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 18 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Bleckley, hours without power per customer

BleckleyUS median countyGeorgia average
0 5 10 15 20 25 0.4 ’15 1.1 ’16 18 ’17 18 ’18 1.2 ’19 0.9 ’20 1.0 ’21 6.7 ’22 2.1 ’23 8.3 ’24 1.0 ’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 2,846 52% 3.4 d 2.3 d 99k
Oct 10, 2018 Hurricane Michael 2,824 51% 2.9 d 2.4 d 93k
Sep 27, 2024 Hurricane Helene 2,034 37% 5.4 d 8.2 h 41k
Apr 6, 2022 Tornadoes 2,561 47% 25 h 21 h 30k
Aug 18, 2024 Thunderstorms 993 18% 4.8 h 4.2 h 2.6k
Feb 24, 2016 No storm report 1,279 23% 3.0 h 4.8 h 2.4k
Apr 13, 2020 No storm report 330 6% 8.2 h 9.5 h 2.0k
Jun 14, 2023 No storm report 924 17% 4.0 h 3.2 h 1.6k
Apr 13, 2023 Thunderstorms 483 9% 4.8 h 4.5 h 1.5k
May 6, 2022 Thunderstorms 326 6% 16 h 16 h 1.5k
Aug 24, 2019 No storm report 668 12% 2.2 h 2.5 h 1.4k
Mar 18, 2019 No storm report 361 7% 3.8 h 3.8 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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +4h 90% by +6h

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

  • Tropical storm 68%
  • Tornadoes 15%
  • No storm on record 14%
  • Thunderstorms 3.0%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Bleckley

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
Ocmulgee Electric Member Corp GA – – – 12.6 131k
Oconee Electric Member Corp Cooperative – – – 15.7 11k

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 5,492 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 →