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

Power outage history

Murray County Georgia

5.7hours

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

106th most of 156 in Georgia close to the national median

Worst outage on record Apr 12, 2020 24% of customers out · 90% back in 2.4 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 5.7h / yr State average 6.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.8days Hurricane Zeta, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 48% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 11 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 21,085 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 Murray'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

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.

Murray, hours without power per customer

MurrayUS median countyGeorgia average
0 5 10 15 1.1 ’15 1.7 ’16 3.4 ’17 6.6 ’18 3.9 ’19 11 ’20 4.2 ’21 3.9 ’22 4.7 ’23 7.0 ’24 4.8 ’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
Apr 12, 2020 Tornadoes 5,017 24% 2.5 d 2.4 d 109k
Oct 29, 2020 Hurricane Zeta 3,371 16% 2.8 d 36 h 59k
Jul 21, 2018 Thunderstorms 5,668 27% 32 h 14 h 57k
Jul 30, 2024 Thunderstorms 4,804 23% 20 h 15 h 28k
May 8, 2024 Thunderstorms 4,177 20% 19 h 6.0 h 26k
Feb 4, 2021 No storm report 8,155 39% 2.2 h 12 min 17k
Jul 20, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,659 8% 27 h 27 h 17k
Apr 22, 2018 No storm report 1,576 7% 23 h 16 h 15k
Mar 4, 2025 No storm report 2,222 11% 21 h 20 h 15k
Dec 24, 2022 No storm report 5,524 26% 5.2 h 2.8 h 14k
Jun 22, 2019 No storm report 2,597 12% 14 h 12 h 14k
Jan 8, 2024 No storm report 1,378 7% 22 h 13 h 12k

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

  • No storm on record 52%
  • Thunderstorms 24%
  • Tornadoes 16%
  • Tropical storm 9.0%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Murray

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
North Georgia Elec Member Corp Cooperative 215 176 2.35 12.9 91k
Central Georgia El Member Corp Cooperative 168 77 1.83 13.1 63k
Amicalola Electric Member Corp Cooperative 728 531 3.85 13.7 52k

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 21,085 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 →