Power Out Map
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Power outage history

Pickens County Georgia

16hours

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

40th most of 156 in Georgia 2.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Zeta · Oct 29, 2020 68% of customers out · 90% back in 3.1 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 16h / yr State average 6.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.4 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 4.5days Hurricane Zeta, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 72% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 32 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 17,031 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 Pickens's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 32 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Pickens, hours without power per customer

PickensUS median countyGeorgia average
0 10 20 30 40 5.2 ’15 4.3 ’16 33 ’17 9.8 ’18 12 ’19 32 ’20 4.6 ’21 12 ’22 32 ’23 18 ’24 8.3 ’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
Oct 29, 2020 Hurricane Zeta 11,602 68% 4.5 d 3.1 d 436k
Jul 20, 2023 Thunderstorms 10,740 63% 4.2 d 3.0 d 426k
Sep 11, 2017 Hurricane Irma 9,146 54% 3.2 d 29 h 269k
Jul 30, 2024 Thunderstorms 7,294 43% 43 h 23 h 109k
Mar 21, 2017 Thunderstorms 7,653 45% 46 h 18 h 99k
Jan 16, 2022 Winter storm 5,820 34% 40 h 33 h 85k
Dec 8, 2017 Winter storm 3,072 18% 2.4 d 1.2 h 82k
Dec 8, 2018 No storm report 2,473 15% 43 h 33 h 58k
Feb 19, 2019 Windstorm 3,196 19% 39 h 14 h 52k
Jun 7, 2025 Thunderstorms 5,925 35% 27 h 15 h 41k
Jun 22, 2019 Thunderstorms 5,270 31% 21 h 14 h 40k
May 27, 2024 Thunderstorms 3,674 22% 16 h 12 h 34k

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 +10h 90% by +24h

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

  • Thunderstorms 40%
  • No storm on record 28%
  • Tropical storm 23%
  • Winter storm 5.4%
  • Windstorm 2.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Pickens

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
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 17,031 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 →