Power outage history
Upson County Georgia
2.9hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
134th most of 156 in Georgia 56% 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 Upson's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.7 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Upson, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 2017 | Hurricane Irma | 1,632 | 8% | 3.1 d | 48 h | 74k |
| Apr 13, 2020 | Tornadoes | 2,303 | 11% | 35 h | 1.5 h | 20k |
| Jun 25, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 2,796 | 14% | 17 h | 15 h | 17k |
| Oct 28, 2021 | No storm report | 3,423 | 17% | 7.8 h | 1.0 h | 15k |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 2,366 | 12% | 16 h | 9.0 h | 13k |
| Jan 10, 2025 | No storm report | 1,202 | 6% | 9.0 h | 7.8 h | 11k |
| Apr 10, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 908 | 5% | 20 h | – | 9.9k |
| Jan 31, 2022 | No storm report | 1,096 | 5% | 9.0 h | 6.0 h | 9.8k |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Tornadoes | 2,422 | 12% | 13 h | 7.8 h | 9.5k |
| Jun 3, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 469 | 2% | 21 h | – | 8.2k |
| Aug 3, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 2,200 | 11% | 8.5 h | 6.8 h | 8.0k |
| Feb 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,000 | 10% | 15 h | 14 h | 7.5k |
| Jun 28, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 837 | 4% | 12 h | – | 7.3k |
| Oct 29, 2020 | Hurricane Zeta | 1,315 | 7% | 7.5 h | 4.2 h | 7.1k |
| Aug 20, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 2,983 | 15% | 9.0 h | 8.8 h | 6.7k |
| Jul 18, 2024 | No storm report | 1,018 | 5% | 11 h | 11 h | 6.4k |
| Jan 16, 2022 | No storm report | 1,090 | 5% | 7.8 h | 1.8 h | 6.2k |
| May 4, 2021 | No storm report | 1,458 | 7% | 9.0 h | 4.8 h | 5.0k |
| Apr 11, 2024 | No storm report | 840 | 4% | 9.2 h | – | 4.4k |
| Jun 22, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 733 | 4% | 8.8 h | – | 4.4k |
| Jun 30, 2019 | No storm report | 953 | 5% | 4.5 h | – | 4.3k |
| Jun 6, 2022 | No storm report | 1,909 | 9% | 2.2 h | 1.8 h | 4.1k |
| Oct 11, 2018 | Hurricane Michael | 406 | 2% | 9.8 h | – | 3.9k |
| Dec 23, 2022 | No storm report | 1,102 | 5% | 5.2 h | 3.0 h | 3.6k |
| Sep 10, 2020 | No storm report | 1,662 | 8% | 2.2 h | 7.5 h | 3.5k |
| Jul 10, 2017 | No storm report | 312 | 2% | 13 h | – | 3.5k |
| Sep 17, 2020 | Hurricane Sally | 631 | 3% | 9.2 h | – | 3.4k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | No storm report | 2,438 | 12% | 4.0 h | 3.8 h | 3.4k |
| May 18, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,447 | 7% | 5.5 h | 3.2 h | 3.1k |
| Apr 3, 2017 | Tornadoes | 665 | 3% | 6.8 h | – | 3.0k |
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 Upson from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 56%
- Thunderstorms 24%
- Tropical storm 11%
- Tornadoes 9.3%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Upson
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 |
| Upson Elec Member Corp | GA | – | – | – | 11.2 | 115k |
| Flint Electric Membership Corp | Cooperative | 151 | 101 | 1.22 | 13.4 | 85k |
| City of Thomaston | GA | – | – | – | 11.0 | 48k |
| Southern Rivers Energy | Cooperative | 774 | 251 | 3.59 | 16.4 | 21k |
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
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 20,124 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 →