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

Power outage history

Wilcox County Georgia

15hours

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

46th most of 156 in Georgia 2.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Michael · Oct 11, 2018 54% of customers out · 90% back in 2.8 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 15h / yr State average 6.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 8.4 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 8.6days Hurricane Helene, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 57% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 37 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 4,661 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 Wilcox'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

2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 37 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Wilcox, hours without power per customer

WilcoxUS median countyGeorgia average
0 10 20 30 40 50 1.4 ’15 1.9 ’16 31 ’17 37 ’18 3.1 ’19 14 ’20 4.9 ’21 5.3 ’22 19 ’23 29 ’24 3.5 ’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
Oct 10, 2018 Hurricane Michael 2,529 54% 4.0 d 2.8 d 154k
Sep 11, 2017 Hurricane Irma 2,572 55% 3.5 d 3.0 d 115k
Sep 27, 2024 Hurricane Helene 2,668 57% 8.6 d 4.3 d 115k
Jul 13, 2020 No storm report 645 14% 23 h 26 h 15k
Jul 23, 2023 No storm report 651 14% 42 h 27 h 12k
Jan 22, 2017 Tornadoes 1,966 42% 20 h 14 h 12k
Jan 12, 2023 Tornadoes 1,094 23% 18 h 9.2 h 9.1k
Jun 13, 2020 No storm report 649 14% 13 h 13 h 8.4k
May 30, 2020 No storm report 649 14% 13 h 19 h 8.2k
Jul 30, 2023 No storm report 1,079 23% 30 h 12 min 7.3k
Dec 21, 2018 No storm report 1,383 30% 7.5 h 6.0 h 6.7k
May 18, 2023 No storm report 614 13% 9.0 h 5.5 h 5.3k

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 +12h 90% by +16h

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

  • Tropical storm 54%
  • No storm on record 43%
  • Tornadoes 2.1%
  • Thunderstorms 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Wilcox

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
Middle Georgia El Member Corp GA – – – 12.7 76k
Irwin Electric Membership Corp Cooperative – – – 16.5 11k
Crisp County Power Comm Political Subdivision 204 204 3.06 17.8 9.2k

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+

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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 4,661 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 →