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

Power outage history

Fulton County Georgia

6.2hours

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

100th most of 156 in Georgia close to the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Zeta · Oct 29, 2020 47% of customers out · 90% back in 2.5 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 6.2h / yr State average 6.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 0.3 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 46hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 3.6days Hurricane Zeta, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 78% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 16 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 383,737 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 Fulton'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 16 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Fulton, hours without power per customer

FultonUS median countyGeorgia average
0 5 10 15 20 2.0 ’15 3.2 ’16 16 ’17 3.3 ’18 4.1 ’19 16 ’20 3.4 ’21 4.6 ’22 5.2 ’23 6.3 ’24 6.6 ’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
Oct 29, 2020 Hurricane Zeta 178,832 47% 3.6 d 2.5 d 4.4M
Sep 11, 2017 Hurricane Irma 136,320 36% 3.3 d 46 h 4.3M
Dec 8, 2017 Winter storm 32,850 9% 42 h 27 h 587k
Feb 16, 2025 Thunderstorms 75,608 20% 22 h 14 h 482k
Jan 10, 2025 No storm report 29,524 8% 22 h 11 h 393k
Sep 27, 2024 Hurricane Helene 33,676 9% 30 h 23 h 380k
Jun 25, 2023 Thunderstorms 36,715 10% 15 h 13 h 230k
Apr 30, 2016 Thunderstorms 23,337 6% 15 h 14 h 210k
Jul 30, 2024 Thunderstorms 36,568 10% 11 h 9.8 h 187k
Mar 21, 2017 Thunderstorms 27,669 7% 12 h 16 h 137k
Mar 15, 2025 No storm report 19,464 5% 11 h 9.5 h 122k
Jan 11, 2020 Thunderstorms 24,119 6% 8.0 h 8.0 h 114k

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 +14h

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

  • Tropical storm 53%
  • Thunderstorms 23%
  • No storm on record 22%
  • Flooding 1.4%
  • Tornadoes 1.2%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Fulton

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
Cobb Electric Membership Corp Cooperative 48 32 0.86 11.6 203k
Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation Cooperative 66 31 1.13 12.8 183k
GreyStone Power Corporation Cooperative 241 81 2.28 12.6 143k
Coweta-Fayette El Member Corp Cooperative 333 119 2.36 13.2 84k
City of Fairburn GA – – – – 36k
City of East Point Municipal – – – 12.0 16k
City of College Park Municipal – – – 11.9 7.8k

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 383,737 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 →