Power outage history
Paulding County Georgia
2.1hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
147th most of 156 in Georgia 68% 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 Paulding's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 6.6 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Paulding, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 8, 2017 | Winter storm | 27,364 | 24% | 3.3 d | 2.0 d | 807k |
| Oct 29, 2020 | Hurricane Zeta | 29,999 | 27% | 2.7 d | 30 h | 611k |
| Mar 16, 2025 | Tornadoes | 22,877 | 20% | 22 h | 19 h | 143k |
| Jun 25, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 10,995 | 10% | 10 h | 3.5 h | 45k |
| Jun 16, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 7,787 | 7% | 9.8 h | 8.0 h | 37k |
| Aug 7, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 8,793 | 8% | 8.0 h | 4.8 h | 30k |
| Jan 11, 2020 | Tornadoes | 5,747 | 5% | 8.5 h | 6.0 h | 25k |
| Jun 15, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 7,796 | 7% | 5.5 h | 4.2 h | 22k |
| Jun 7, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 9,074 | 8% | 4.2 h | 4.0 h | 21k |
| Feb 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 3,952 | 4% | 4.8 h | – | 13k |
| Aug 6, 2023 | No storm report | 2,558 | 2% | 7.5 h | – | 12k |
| Apr 24, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 3,138 | 3% | 8.2 h | – | 12k |
| Aug 27, 2021 | No storm report | 3,409 | 3% | 2.8 h | – | 8.2k |
| Jul 21, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 2,631 | 2% | 4.5 h | – | 7.2k |
| May 27, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 3,747 | 3% | 2.2 h | – | 6.9k |
| Apr 10, 2024 | No storm report | 3,575 | 3% | 3.8 h | – | 6.2k |
| Mar 10, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 1,672 | 2% | 3.8 h | – | 6.0k |
| Sep 26, 2015 | No storm report | 2,543 | 2% | 2.8 h | – | 5.9k |
| Jul 28, 2025 | No storm report | 2,867 | 3% | 2.2 h | – | 5.6k |
| Aug 18, 2024 | No storm report | 1,546 | 1% | 3.2 h | – | 5.0k |
| Sep 27, 2018 | No storm report | 7,117 | 6% | 1.0 h | 30 min | 5.0k |
| Jul 30, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 2,488 | 2% | 2.5 h | – | 4.7k |
| Jan 11, 2020 | Tornadoes | 5,443 | 5% | 1.0 h | 12 min | 4.6k |
| Apr 14, 2020 | No storm report | 2,919 | 3% | 1.5 h | – | 4.2k |
| Aug 22, 2020 | No storm report | 3,274 | 3% | 1.8 h | – | 4.1k |
| May 2, 2020 | No storm report | 2,811 | 3% | 1.5 h | – | 3.9k |
| Jan 10, 2025 | No storm report | 1,661 | 1% | 5.2 h | – | 3.9k |
| Jul 8, 2025 | No storm report | 2,573 | 2% | 1.8 h | – | 3.8k |
| Jun 21, 2023 | No storm report | 3,047 | 3% | 1.2 h | – | 3.8k |
| Mar 5, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,246 | 2% | 2.2 h | – | 3.7k |
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 Paulding from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tropical storm 54%
- Thunderstorms 17%
- Tornadoes 15%
- No storm on record 13%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Paulding
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 |
| Cobb Electric Membership Corp | Cooperative | 48 | 32 | 0.86 | 11.6 | 203k |
| GreyStone Power Corporation | Cooperative | 241 | 81 | 2.28 | 12.6 | 143k |
| Carroll Electric Member Corp | Cooperative | 360 | 137 | 2.34 | 13.9 | 54k |
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 111,785 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 →