Power outage history
Carroll County Georgia
3.2hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
131st most of 156 in Georgia 52% 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 Carroll's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 9.8 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Carroll, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 8, 2017 | Winter storm | 26,373 | 37% | 2.8 d | 31 h | 659k |
| Oct 29, 2020 | Hurricane Zeta | 26,270 | 37% | 2.8 d | 45 h | 528k |
| Apr 3, 2017 | Tornadoes | 16,612 | 24% | 18 h | 13 h | 74k |
| Feb 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 7,243 | 10% | 12 h | 10 h | 43k |
| Jan 11, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 6,100 | 9% | 14 h | 7.0 h | 38k |
| Aug 7, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 14,755 | 21% | 7.8 h | 7.0 h | 32k |
| Jun 7, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 4,512 | 6% | 15 h | 16 h | 28k |
| Apr 24, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 5,379 | 8% | 8.0 h | 6.8 h | 20k |
| Apr 10, 2024 | No storm report | 4,072 | 6% | 10 h | 13 h | 19k |
| Mar 19, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 3,655 | 5% | 8.5 h | 5.0 h | 15k |
| Jul 29, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 3,139 | 4% | 6.5 h | – | 13k |
| Dec 23, 2022 | No storm report | 3,682 | 5% | 8.0 h | 7.0 h | 12k |
| Mar 15, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,029 | 3% | 8.8 h | – | 12k |
| Apr 10, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,880 | 4% | 8.0 h | – | 12k |
| Jun 25, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 3,476 | 5% | 5.5 h | – | 11k |
| Mar 4, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,193 | 3% | 7.2 h | – | 11k |
| Aug 30, 2024 | No storm report | 5,119 | 7% | 4.8 h | 1.5 h | 11k |
| Sep 11, 2017 | Hurricane Irma | 2,106 | 3% | 7.8 h | – | 10k |
| Aug 3, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 3,818 | 5% | 4.2 h | 4.8 h | 9.7k |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 1,613 | 2% | 7.0 h | – | 7.4k |
| Jun 15, 2017 | No storm report | 4,383 | 6% | 2.5 h | 3.8 h | 7.4k |
| Jul 14, 2025 | No storm report | 1,471 | 2% | 6.2 h | – | 7.3k |
| Jun 21, 2020 | No storm report | 2,144 | 3% | 4.5 h | – | 6.3k |
| Feb 6, 2020 | No storm report | 2,281 | 3% | 4.0 h | – | 6.1k |
| Apr 22, 2018 | No storm report | 2,219 | 3% | 3.0 h | – | 6.1k |
| Dec 31, 2024 | No storm report | 1,934 | 3% | 5.0 h | – | 6.0k |
| Dec 7, 2023 | No storm report | 4,719 | 7% | 1.5 h | 1.5 h | 5.6k |
| Jun 8, 2022 | No storm report | 1,721 | 2% | 5.0 h | – | 5.6k |
| Jan 10, 2025 | Winter storm | 2,702 | 4% | 3.8 h | – | 5.6k |
| Jun 24, 2016 | No storm report | 729 | 1% | 7.5 h | – | 5.5k |
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 Carroll from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tropical storm 50%
- Thunderstorms 26%
- No storm on record 23%
- Winter storm 0.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Carroll
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 |
| GreyStone Power Corporation | Cooperative | 241 | 81 | 2.28 | 12.6 | 143k |
| Carroll Electric Member Corp | Cooperative | 360 | 137 | 2.34 | 13.9 | 54k |
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
- Cleburne, AL 27 h
- Randolph, AL 24 h
- Haralson 8.4 h
- Heard 7.8 h
- Fulton 6.2 h
- Coweta 4.7 h
- Carroll (this county) 3.2 h
- Douglas 2.6 h
- Paulding 2.1 h
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 70,666 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 →