Power outage history
Hall County Georgia
4.0hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
119th most of 156 in Georgia 39% 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 Hall'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 11 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Hall, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 2017 | Hurricane Irma | 49,235 | 51% | 5.0 d | 3.6 d | 2.2M |
| Oct 29, 2020 | Hurricane Zeta | 45,151 | 46% | 3.4 d | 2.1 d | 866k |
| Feb 16, 2015 | Ice storm | 21,017 | 22% | 2.2 d | 43 h | 572k |
| Jun 7, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 19,747 | 20% | 32 h | 24 h | 238k |
| Jan 16, 2022 | Winter storm | 12,745 | 13% | 38 h | 29 h | 135k |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 12,099 | 12% | 33 h | 11 h | 118k |
| Jul 20, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 14,957 | 15% | 23 h | 21 h | 86k |
| Jun 25, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 4,808 | 5% | 23 h | – | 64k |
| Jul 30, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 7,312 | 8% | 21 h | 23 h | 60k |
| Oct 4, 2015 | Windstorm | 7,182 | 7% | 21 h | 16 h | 58k |
| Apr 13, 2020 | Tornadoes | 5,953 | 6% | 8.0 h | 6.8 h | 29k |
| Mar 21, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 6,997 | 7% | 6.8 h | 6.5 h | 26k |
| Jun 17, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 12,489 | 13% | 6.5 h | 5.0 h | 25k |
| Dec 23, 2022 | No storm report | 4,563 | 5% | 7.5 h | – | 24k |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 6,276 | 6% | 6.5 h | 6.0 h | 22k |
| Jun 1, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 8,071 | 8% | 5.5 h | 5.0 h | 22k |
| Jan 11, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 6,403 | 7% | 7.0 h | 6.2 h | 20k |
| May 4, 2019 | No storm report | 2,128 | 2% | 8.2 h | – | 17k |
| Mar 16, 2025 | No storm report | 2,721 | 3% | 9.8 h | – | 17k |
| May 9, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 3,629 | 4% | 6.2 h | – | 16k |
| Jun 6, 2025 | No storm report | 3,341 | 3% | 5.2 h | – | 15k |
| Oct 11, 2020 | Flooding | 2,955 | 3% | 8.0 h | – | 12k |
| Dec 29, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 3,396 | 3% | 6.5 h | – | 12k |
| Jan 3, 2022 | No storm report | 3,029 | 3% | 5.8 h | – | 12k |
| Aug 17, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 4,305 | 4% | 4.8 h | – | 11k |
| Jul 8, 2022 | No storm report | 2,416 | 2% | 5.5 h | – | 11k |
| Jan 11, 2025 | No storm report | 3,148 | 3% | 6.0 h | – | 9.7k |
| Sep 17, 2020 | Hurricane Sally | 5,419 | 6% | 4.8 h | 3.2 h | 9.6k |
| Nov 16, 2024 | No storm report | 3,624 | 4% | 2.8 h | – | 9.1k |
| Oct 31, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 3,593 | 4% | 2.5 h | – | 8.0k |
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 Hall from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tropical storm 47%
- Thunderstorms 29%
- No storm on record 16%
- Winter storm 6.3%
- Tornadoes 1.5%
- Flooding 0.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Hall
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 |
| Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation | Cooperative | 66 | 31 | 1.13 | 12.8 | 183k |
| Habersham Electric Membership Corp | Cooperative | 387 | 185 | 3.02 | 14.0 | 36k |
| City of Buford | Municipal | – | – | – | 13.4 | 3.0k |
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.
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 97,219 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 →