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

Power outage history

Wayne County Georgia

18hours

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

36th most of 156 in Georgia 2.8× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Helene · Sep 27, 2024 82% of customers out · 90% back in 11.6 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 18h / yr State average 6.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.3 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 6hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 15.5days Hurricane Helene, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 89% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 4.9 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 16,057 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 Wayne'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 4.9 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Wayne, hours without power per customer

WayneUS median countyGeorgia average
0 20 40 60 0.9 ’15 17 ’16 24 ’17 2.9 ’18 4.1 ’19 4.2 ’20 3.4 ’21 4.1 ’22 6.8 ’23 118 ’24 4.3 ’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
Sep 26, 2024 Hurricane Helene 13,091 82% 15.5 d 11.6 d 1.8M
Sep 11, 2017 Hurricane Irma 13,239 82% 3.4 d 46 h 354k
Oct 8, 2016 Hurricane Matthew 4,325 27% 3.2 d 2.8 d 162k
Oct 7, 2016 Hurricane Matthew 5,309 33% 17 h 17 h 74k
Aug 30, 2023 Hurricane Idalia 5,476 34% 29 h 19 h 45k
Apr 19, 2019 Thunderstorms 3,033 19% 27 h 11 h 26k
Apr 13, 2020 Tornadoes 2,914 18% 15 h 14 h 25k
Sep 2, 2016 Hurricane Hermine 1,901 12% 30 h 24 h 21k
Apr 24, 2021 No storm report 2,470 15% 8.5 h 6.2 h 8.6k
Dec 17, 2023 Windstorm 2,619 16% 4.0 h 1.0 h 7.8k
Jun 13, 2023 No storm report 1,863 12% 8.8 h 7.8 h 6.7k
Jul 22, 2023 No storm report 3,413 21% 3.2 h 1.2 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 +6h 90% by +14h

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

  • Tropical storm 85%
  • No storm on record 11%
  • Thunderstorms 1.9%
  • Tornadoes 1.2%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Wayne

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
Satilla Rural Elec Member Corporation Cooperative – – – 14.7 54k
Okefenoke Rural El Member Corp Cooperative 407 180 2.83 14.3 28k

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+

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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 16,057 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 →