Power Out Map
– 0% of Washington out 0 customers out in Georgia

Power outage history

Washington County Georgia

15hours

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

42nd most of 156 in Georgia 2.4× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Helene · Sep 27, 2024 69% of customers out · 90% back in 7.3 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 15h / yr State average 6.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.5 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 12.5days Hurricane Helene, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 82% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 3.3 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 10,974 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 Washington'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 3.3 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Washington, hours without power per customer

WashingtonUS median countyGeorgia average
0 10 20 30 40 0.1 ’15 0.3 ’16 5.6 ’17 15 ’18 4.1 ’19 4.9 ’20 3.5 ’21 7.7 ’22 5.4 ’23 79 ’24 4.0 ’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
Sep 27, 2024 Hurricane Helene 7,592 69% 12.5 d 7.3 d 784k
Oct 10, 2018 Hurricane Michael 4,737 43% 2.5 d 38 h 135k
Sep 11, 2017 Hurricane Irma 1,455 13% 2.3 d 2.2 d 55k
May 6, 2022 Thunderstorms 2,705 25% 18 h 15 h 18k
Aug 18, 2024 Thunderstorms 3,666 33% 13 h 7.8 h 16k
Apr 13, 2020 Tornadoes 1,962 18% 30 h 18 h 15k
Jan 3, 2022 No storm report 1,394 13% 15 h 12 h 11k
Jun 15, 2022 No storm report 1,898 17% 4.2 h 2.0 h 8.0k
Nov 22, 2019 No storm report 755 7% 9.8 h 9.8 h 7.3k
Jun 25, 2023 No storm report 2,654 24% 17 h 4.0 h 6.6k
Jul 20, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,652 15% 9.0 h 5.2 h 6.5k
Aug 15, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,868 26% 9.2 h 3.2 h 6.3k

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 +4h 90% by +12h

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

  • Tropical storm 75%
  • No storm on record 18%
  • Thunderstorms 5.3%
  • Tornadoes 1.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Washington

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
Jefferson Electric Member Corp Cooperative 163 143 1.77 14.6 35k
Washington Elec Member Corp Cooperative 1,789 1,789 – 15.4 15k
City of Sandersville Municipal – – – 10.5 2.2k

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 10,974 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 →