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

Power outage history

Monroe County Georgia

4.6hours

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

118th most of 156 in Georgia 30% below the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Irma · Sep 11, 2017 54% of customers out · 90% back in 2.9 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 4.6h / yr State average 6.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.8 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 7hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 4.3days Hurricane Irma, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 43% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 5.8 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 18,899 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 Monroe'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

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 5.8 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Monroe, hours without power per customer

MonroeUS median countyGeorgia average
0 5 10 15 20 25 1.1 ’15 2.3 ’16 21 ’17 4.0 ’18 4.4 ’19 3.7 ’20 2.8 ’21 5.8 ’22 5.4 ’23 4.7 ’24 5.8 ’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 11, 2017 Hurricane Irma 10,238 54% 4.3 d 2.9 d 344k
Feb 16, 2025 Thunderstorms 3,737 20% 35 h 28 h 42k
Jun 25, 2023 Thunderstorms 5,150 27% 22 h 14 h 36k
Apr 10, 2025 Thunderstorms 2,443 13% 22 h 21 h 19k
Jun 3, 2018 Thunderstorms 6,562 35% 20 h 8.0 h 18k
Sep 27, 2024 Hurricane Helene 1,637 9% 19 h 14 h 17k
Jun 15, 2022 Thunderstorms 1,906 10% 16 h 16 h 14k
Oct 10, 2018 Hurricane Michael 1,415 7% 18 h 12 h 14k
Dec 29, 2024 No storm report 1,669 9% 15 h 15 h 13k
Mar 25, 2017 No storm report 340 2% 39 h – 12k
Jan 3, 2022 No storm report 2,841 15% 8.5 h 4.2 h 11k
Oct 11, 2020 No storm report 1,770 9% 6.0 h 7.0 h 10.0k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +6h 90% by +14h

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

  • No storm on record 57%
  • Thunderstorms 33%
  • Tropical storm 8.3%
  • Tornadoes 1.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Monroe

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
Flint Electric Membership Corp Cooperative 151 101 1.22 13.4 85k
Central Georgia El Member Corp Cooperative 168 77 1.83 13.1 63k
City of Forsyth GA – – – – 23k
Southern Rivers Energy Cooperative 774 251 3.59 16.4 21k

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+

All Georgia counties →

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 18,899 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 →