Power outage history
Grady County Georgia
14hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
49th most of 156 in Georgia 2.1× 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 Grady's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.3 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Grady, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 10, 2018 | Hurricane Michael | 9,059 | 59% | 10.4 d | 20 h | 1.1M |
| Sep 11, 2017 | Hurricane Irma | 6,583 | 43% | 2.5 d | 6.8 h | 120k |
| Jun 14, 2023 | No storm report | 6,018 | 39% | 39 h | 24 h | 75k |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 5,197 | 34% | 18 h | 13 h | 57k |
| Jul 21, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 3,696 | 24% | 42 h | 17 h | 38k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | No storm report | 2,462 | 16% | 8.0 h | 5.2 h | 11k |
| Aug 5, 2024 | Hurricane Debby | 2,219 | 14% | 10 h | 8.5 h | 10k |
| Sep 29, 2021 | No storm report | 4,506 | 29% | 2.0 h | 4.2 h | 9.0k |
| Dec 16, 2022 | No storm report | 5,678 | 37% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 8.5k |
| Aug 17, 2020 | No storm report | 201 | 1% | 42 h | – | 8.2k |
| Apr 24, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,362 | 9% | 9.5 h | 1.0 h | 6.6k |
| Jul 20, 2024 | No storm report | 1,961 | 13% | 7.5 h | 6.5 h | 5.7k |
| Apr 23, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,321 | 9% | 7.0 h | 3.8 h | 5.0k |
| Aug 18, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,493 | 10% | 5.5 h | 4.5 h | 4.9k |
| Aug 30, 2023 | Hurricane Idalia | 1,247 | 8% | 6.5 h | 3.2 h | 4.6k |
| Aug 9, 2020 | No storm report | 196 | 1% | 23 h | – | 4.2k |
| Jun 16, 2024 | No storm report | 1,682 | 11% | 5.2 h | 1.8 h | 4.1k |
| Mar 23, 2022 | No storm report | 1,525 | 10% | 7.5 h | 6.2 h | 4.1k |
| Sep 29, 2019 | No storm report | 911 | 6% | 4.8 h | 4.2 h | 3.8k |
| Mar 25, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 908 | 6% | 5.2 h | 4.0 h | 3.7k |
| Jun 19, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 928 | 6% | 4.2 h | 3.8 h | 3.5k |
| Mar 12, 2022 | No storm report | 967 | 6% | 5.2 h | 3.5 h | 3.4k |
| Jun 8, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 1,991 | 13% | 3.8 h | 2.5 h | 3.3k |
| Sep 13, 2023 | No storm report | 794 | 5% | 4.5 h | 3.5 h | 3.1k |
| Aug 3, 2018 | No storm report | 953 | 6% | 3.5 h | 2.8 h | 3.0k |
| Dec 18, 2024 | No storm report | 756 | 5% | 3.5 h | – | 2.6k |
| Jul 1, 2025 | No storm report | 1,496 | 10% | 2.2 h | 1.0 h | 2.5k |
| Sep 24, 2025 | No storm report | 1,632 | 11% | 1.8 h | 30 min | 2.5k |
| Oct 21, 2023 | No storm report | 1,958 | 13% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 2.4k |
| Apr 8, 2024 | No storm report | 753 | 5% | 3.2 h | – | 2.4k |
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.
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 Grady from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tropical storm 76%
- No storm on record 18%
- Thunderstorms 5.3%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Grady
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 |
| City of Cairo | GA | – | – | – | 12.3 | 48k |
| Mitchell Electric Member Corp | Cooperative | 410 | 349 | 3.75 | 17.1 | 21k |
| Grady Electric Membership Corp | Cooperative | 234 | 234 | 2.54 | 15.0 | 19k |
| City of Thomasville | Municipal | 161 | 126 | 2.17 | 13.6 | 14k |
| City of Whigham | GA | – | – | – | – | 2.9k |
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
- Decatur 19 h
- Grady (this county) 14 h
- Gadsden, FL 13 h
- Leon, FL 13 h
- Mitchell 8.9 h
- Thomas 4.0 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 15,452 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 →