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

Power outage history

Lowndes County Georgia

27hours

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

17th most of 156 in Georgia 4.1× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Helene · Sep 27, 2024 88% of customers out · 90% back in 10.8 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 27h / yr State average 6.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 0.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 37hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 14.5days Hurricane Helene, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 97% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 6.4 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 70,771 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 Lowndes'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

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 6.4 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Lowndes, hours without power per customer

LowndesUS median countyGeorgia average
0 50 100 150 200 0.6 ’15 3.1 ’16 9.1 ’17 1.5 ’18 0.4 ’19 0.8 ’20 0.7 ’21 0.7 ’22 55 ’23 155 ’24 3.9 ’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
Sep 26, 2024 Hurricane Helene 61,947 88% 14.5 d 10.8 d 9.4M
Aug 30, 2023 Hurricane Idalia 60,581 86% 6.5 d 4.7 d 3.8M
Aug 5, 2024 Hurricane Debby 35,288 50% 2.5 d 37 h 926k
Sep 11, 2017 Hurricane Irma 19,665 28% 3.8 d 2.3 d 593k
Sep 2, 2016 Hurricane Hermine 13,185 19% 32 h 18 h 191k
Oct 10, 2018 Hurricane Michael 5,362 8% 24 h 12 h 79k
Jan 9, 2024 Thunderstorms 11,873 17% 15 h 11 h 77k
Mar 27, 2024 Thunderstorms 12,597 18% 19 h 12 h 59k
Nov 6, 2024 No storm report 5,055 7% 18 h 12 h 37k
May 16, 2025 No storm report 2,672 4% 7.5 h – 20k
Feb 4, 2024 Tornadoes 2,255 3% 8.0 h – 15k
Jul 19, 2024 No storm report 6,145 9% 4.5 h 3.2 h 15k

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 +4h 90% by +12h

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

  • Tropical storm 96%
  • No storm on record 2.9%
  • Thunderstorms 1.3%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Lowndes

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
Slash Pine Elec Member Corp GA – – – 12.4 109k
Colquitt Electric Membership Corp Cooperative – – – 13.9 66k

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 70,771 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 →