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

Power outage history

Wheeler County Georgia

8.1hours

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

1.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Helene · Sep 29, 2024 15% of customers out · 90% back in 6.9 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 8.1h / yr State average 6.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 1.3 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 35hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 9.4days Hurricane Helene, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 92% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 23 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 5,211 ORNL customer model · 3 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 Wheeler'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 23 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Wheeler, hours without power per customer

WheelerUS median countyGeorgia average
0 10 20 30 ’15 ’16 4.6 ’17 ’18 0.4 ’19 ’20 ’21 ’22 ’23 23 ’24 1.1 ’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 797 15% 9.4 d 6.9 d 108k
Oct 11, 2018 Hurricane Michael 797 15% 2.5 d 35 h 25k
Sep 11, 2017 Hurricane Irma 665 13% 3.6 d 2.0 d 22k
May 9, 2024 Tornadoes 811 16% 10 h 7.8 h 6.1k
May 9, 2025 No storm report 346 7% 5.0 h 5.0 h 1.7k
Aug 22, 2018 No storm report 413 8% 6.0 h 6.0 h 1.5k
Aug 30, 2023 Hurricane Idalia 150 3% 7.0 h – 1.0k
Aug 18, 2024 No storm report 405 8% 2.5 h 1.0 h 1.0k
Sep 2, 2016 Hurricane Hermine 409 8% 2.8 h 2.8 h 988
Jun 17, 2016 Thunderstorms 153 3% 6.5 h – 968
Jan 10, 2024 Thunderstorms 348 7% 2.5 h 2.5 h 870
Sep 3, 2016 Hurricane Hermine 409 8% 1.8 h 2.2 h 716

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

  • Tropical storm 87%
  • No storm on record 8.1%
  • Tornadoes 4.0%
  • Thunderstorms 0.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Wheeler

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
Little Ocmulgee El Member Corp GA – – – 13.2 129k

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 5,211 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 →