Power outage history
Jackson County Georgia
1.7hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
151st most of 156 in Georgia 74% 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 Jackson's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.2 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Jackson, 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 | 13,291 | 21% | 3.3 d | 2.5 d | 435k |
| Jul 20, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 5,143 | 8% | 27 h | 38 h | 73k |
| Jun 7, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 9,140 | 14% | 27 h | 21 h | 70k |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 7,830 | 12% | 15 h | 10 h | 62k |
| Feb 16, 2015 | Ice storm | 2,903 | 5% | 39 h | – | 60k |
| Mar 21, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 7,188 | 11% | 8.2 h | 7.0 h | 20k |
| Oct 29, 2020 | Hurricane Zeta | 3,712 | 6% | 9.0 h | 7.5 h | 20k |
| Jun 27, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 2,810 | 4% | 8.5 h | – | 15k |
| Dec 23, 2022 | No storm report | 2,480 | 4% | 10 h | – | 14k |
| Jan 10, 2025 | No storm report | 2,208 | 4% | 10 h | – | 13k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | No storm report | 3,276 | 5% | 4.2 h | 5.2 h | 13k |
| Mar 16, 2025 | No storm report | 2,004 | 3% | 6.2 h | – | 11k |
| Apr 13, 2020 | No storm report | 3,916 | 6% | 4.5 h | 5.2 h | 11k |
| Apr 10, 2024 | No storm report | 2,142 | 3% | 11 h | – | 11k |
| Apr 10, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,689 | 4% | 3.8 h | – | 9.8k |
| Jun 17, 2025 | No storm report | 1,581 | 3% | 5.5 h | – | 6.8k |
| Apr 13, 2025 | No storm report | 2,138 | 3% | 3.0 h | – | 6.1k |
| Mar 17, 2021 | No storm report | 4,065 | 6% | 1.8 h | 30 min | 5.5k |
| May 5, 2021 | No storm report | 2,576 | 4% | 3.2 h | – | 5.2k |
| May 12, 2024 | No storm report | 2,901 | 5% | 1.8 h | – | 5.1k |
| Jul 20, 2024 | No storm report | 2,461 | 4% | 2.0 h | – | 4.9k |
| Sep 10, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 1,231 | 2% | 4.5 h | – | 4.5k |
| Jul 31, 2025 | No storm report | 1,551 | 2% | 4.0 h | – | 4.5k |
| Dec 28, 2024 | No storm report | 1,748 | 3% | 2.5 h | – | 4.4k |
| Jan 13, 2023 | No storm report | 2,153 | 3% | 2.0 h | – | 4.3k |
| Jul 8, 2022 | No storm report | 1,718 | 3% | 2.8 h | – | 4.2k |
| Jun 30, 2023 | No storm report | 2,357 | 4% | 1.8 h | – | 4.1k |
| Dec 10, 2024 | No storm report | 1,615 | 3% | 2.5 h | – | 4.0k |
| Jul 18, 2020 | No storm report | 1,422 | 2% | 2.8 h | – | 3.8k |
| May 20, 2024 | No storm report | 2,909 | 5% | 1.2 h | – | 3.6k |
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 Jackson from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 47%
- Thunderstorms 35%
- Tropical storm 17%
- Winter storm 0.7%
- Flooding 0.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Jackson
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 |
| City of Commerce | GA | – | – | – | – | 31k |
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 63,033 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 →