– 0% of Rabun out 0 customers out in Georgia

Power outage history

Rabun County Georgia

35hours

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

6th most of 156 in Georgia 5.4× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Irma · Sep 12, 2017 100% of customers out · 90% back in 4.6 days

Hours without power, average customer per year 35h / yr State average 6.7 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year 8.8 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers

Typical time to restore 90% 4hours Median across major outages, from the peak

Longest single outage 7.1days Hurricane Irma, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 70% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2024 2.9 days without power, average customer

Electricity customers 10,115 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 Rabun'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 2.9 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Rabun, hours without power per customer

RabunUS median countyGeorgia average

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	10,115	100%	7.1 d	4.6 d	788k
Sep 26, 2024	Hurricane Helene	10,115	100%	5.4 d	3.7 d	564k
Oct 29, 2020	Hurricane Zeta	10,115	100%	4.8 d	2.9 d	535k
Dec 8, 2018	Winter storm	7,078	70%	2.5 d	28 h	199k
Jan 16, 2022	Winter storm	8,778	87%	3.5 d	2.2 d	190k
Jan 3, 2022	Windstorm	8,392	83%	2.7 d	37 h	125k
Dec 8, 2017	Winter storm	5,868	58%	47 h	28 h	117k
Jan 22, 2016	Winter storm	4,333	43%	2.5 d	34 h	81k
Aug 7, 2023	Thunderstorms	3,238	32%	28 h	19 h	27k
Dec 23, 2022	Winter storm	3,094	31%	31 h	11 h	24k
Oct 3, 2015	No storm report	2,046	20%	39 h	5.2 h	22k
Jun 17, 2025	No storm report	2,950	29%	24 h	15 h	22k
Apr 12, 2020	No storm report	2,702	27%	35 h	13 h	22k
Jun 7, 2025	No storm report	3,307	33%	18 h	15 h	22k
Aug 17, 2021	Tropical Storm Fred	2,244	22%	25 h	11 h	20k
Dec 29, 2025	No storm report	2,916	29%	20 h	11 h	19k
Jun 25, 2023	Thunderstorms	2,088	21%	33 h	24 h	19k
Jul 29, 2023	No storm report	3,716	37%	25 h	15 h	17k
Mar 15, 2025	No storm report	2,531	25%	21 h	12 h	16k
Feb 25, 2015	Winter storm	1,810	18%	25 h	7.2 h	16k
Feb 6, 2021	Winter storm	4,089	40%	13 h	4.0 h	14k
Oct 11, 2020	Flooding	1,808	18%	28 h	21 h	14k
Feb 16, 2015	Winter storm	1,273	13%	15 h	3.2 h	14k
Feb 14, 2015	No storm report	3,642	36%	13 h	5.8 h	14k
Oct 6, 2021	Flooding	1,886	19%	25 h	4.0 h	13k
Dec 28, 2015	No storm report	1,950	19%	19 h	6.2 h	12k
Dec 10, 2023	No storm report	1,345	13%	35 h	8.2 h	11k
Aug 31, 2021	Hurricane Ida	1,569	16%	23 h	15 h	11k
Apr 1, 2023	No storm report	3,786	37%	7.8 h	3.2 h	11k
Dec 24, 2020	No storm report	1,650	16%	12 h	6.5 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.

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

Tropical storm 44%
No storm on record 30%
Winter storm 16%
Windstorm 4.8%
Thunderstorms 3.7%
Flooding 1.2%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Rabun

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
Habersham Electric Membership Corp	Cooperative	387	185	3.02	14.0	36k
Haywood Electric Member Corp	Cooperative	–	–	–	17.1	435

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

Rabun (this county) 35 h
Oconee, SC 22 h
Macon, NC 13 h
Towns 8.3 h
Clay, NC 7.9 h
Habersham 6.5 h

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 10,115 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 →