Power Out Map
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Power outage history

Towns County Georgia

8.3hours

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

82nd most of 156 in Georgia 1.3× the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 16, 2025 60% of customers out · 90% back in 8.5 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 8.3h / yr State average 6.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 7.7 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 34hours Mar 16, 2025, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 20% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 13 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 6,374 Estimated from population · 7 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 Towns'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

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 13 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Towns, hours without power per customer

TownsUS median countyGeorgia average
0 5 10 15 ’17 2.1 ’19 13 ’20 3.6 ’21 5.3 ’22 9.1 ’23 13 ’24 12 ’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
Mar 16, 2025 No storm report 3,849 60% 34 h 8.5 h 46k
Oct 29, 2020 Hurricane Zeta 3,939 62% 31 h 14 h 37k
May 27, 2024 No storm report 3,125 49% 28 h 11 h 20k
Mar 3, 2023 No storm report 6,088 96% 11 h 1.8 h 15k
Jan 11, 2020 No storm report 1,313 21% 26 h 21 h 12k
Sep 27, 2024 Hurricane Helene 2,022 32% 15 h 9.2 h 9.7k
Jan 16, 2022 Winter storm 2,230 35% 12 h 4.2 h 6.1k
Sep 8, 2024 No storm report 1,087 17% 5.8 h 15 h 5.9k
Jan 13, 2020 No storm report 2,036 32% 6.5 h 5.8 h 5.3k
Oct 28, 2021 No storm report 2,066 32% 4.8 h 30 min 4.8k
Apr 16, 2020 No storm report 1,087 17% 4.2 h 11 h 4.6k
Jul 1, 2023 No storm report 1,312 21% 7.5 h 4.2 h 4.5k

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 +2h 90% by +6h

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

  • No storm on record 80%
  • Tropical storm 16%
  • Winter storm 2.2%
  • Thunderstorms 2.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Towns

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
Blue Ridge Mountain EMC Cooperative 519 289 3.73 14.8 31k

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 6,374 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 →