Power outage history
Laurens County Georgia
9.0hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
73rd most of 156 in Georgia 1.4× 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 Laurens's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 44 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Laurens, 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 27, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 10,103 | 41% | 7.7 d | 6.9 d | 1.0M |
| Oct 10, 2018 | Hurricane Michael | 10,021 | 41% | 2.9 d | 2.5 d | 357k |
| Sep 11, 2017 | Hurricane Irma | 5,506 | 23% | 4.2 d | 2.7 d | 177k |
| May 6, 2022 | No storm report | 7,218 | 30% | 12 h | 5.5 h | 23k |
| Jun 26, 2025 | No storm report | 3,106 | 13% | 13 h | 11 h | 22k |
| Jun 17, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 4,104 | 17% | 8.5 h | 6.8 h | 18k |
| Aug 8, 2023 | No storm report | 2,871 | 12% | 9.5 h | 5.0 h | 15k |
| Jan 3, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,394 | 6% | 9.2 h | 8.8 h | 8.7k |
| Aug 3, 2024 | No storm report | 1,902 | 8% | 7.2 h | 5.0 h | 7.2k |
| Jul 21, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 2,324 | 10% | 6.2 h | 6.0 h | 6.0k |
| Apr 4, 2022 | No storm report | 696 | 3% | 8.2 h | – | 5.7k |
| May 9, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 861 | 4% | 7.2 h | – | 4.6k |
| Jun 18, 2015 | No storm report | 1,977 | 8% | 2.0 h | 12 min | 3.9k |
| Jul 15, 2022 | No storm report | 1,286 | 5% | 8.0 h | 8.0 h | 3.9k |
| Feb 4, 2024 | No storm report | 1,466 | 6% | 3.8 h | 1.0 h | 2.9k |
| May 21, 2023 | No storm report | 697 | 3% | 4.2 h | – | 2.9k |
| May 31, 2020 | No storm report | 689 | 3% | 4.0 h | – | 2.8k |
| Jun 1, 2016 | No storm report | 2,173 | 9% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 2.7k |
| Apr 13, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 675 | 3% | 4.8 h | – | 2.7k |
| May 11, 2025 | No storm report | 1,518 | 6% | 1.8 h | 4.0 h | 2.6k |
| Apr 7, 2025 | No storm report | 1,128 | 5% | 5.0 h | – | 2.6k |
| May 28, 2025 | No storm report | 2,372 | 10% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 2.5k |
| Jun 14, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,044 | 4% | 3.8 h | – | 2.3k |
| Aug 31, 2021 | No storm report | 1,225 | 5% | 2.5 h | 1.8 h | 2.3k |
| May 8, 2025 | No storm report | 1,138 | 5% | 2.0 h | – | 2.3k |
| Aug 10, 2017 | No storm report | 1,291 | 5% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 2.3k |
| Nov 10, 2022 | Hurricane Nicole | 1,001 | 4% | 6.0 h | – | 2.2k |
| Mar 12, 2022 | No storm report | 749 | 3% | 3.0 h | – | 2.2k |
| Apr 26, 2025 | No storm report | 1,269 | 5% | 1.8 h | 30 min | 2.2k |
| Mar 12, 2022 | No storm report | 1,115 | 5% | 2.0 h | – | 2.2k |
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 Laurens from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tropical storm 86%
- No storm on record 12%
- Thunderstorms 2.0%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Laurens
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 |
| Ocmulgee Electric Member Corp | GA | – | – | – | 12.6 | 131k |
| Little Ocmulgee El Member Corp | GA | – | – | – | 13.2 | 129k |
| Altamaha Electric Member Corp | Cooperative | 375 | 260 | 2.13 | 16.3 | 20k |
| Washington Elec Member Corp | Cooperative | 1,789 | 1,789 | – | 15.4 | 15k |
| Oconee Electric Member Corp | Cooperative | – | – | – | 15.7 | 11k |
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 24,434 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 →