Power outages in Chatham County, GA

We don't have a live outage feed for the utilities serving Chatham County yet. Canoochee Electric Member Corp serves this county.

Right now

Elevated outages

Normal: fewer than 0.1% of customers out. Elevated: 0.1% or more. Major outage: 1% or more.

562customers without power

A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.

0.33% of 171,151 customersUpdated 7 min ago

We check every utility's outage data every 10 minutes. Each utility updates its own map on its own schedule, usually every 5 to 15 minutes.

Canoochee Electric Member Corpno live feed

This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.

Also serves this county, per federal utility records

From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.

. Check its own outage map.

Outage map

County outline

Outages by ZIP code

4 of 14 ZIP codes have outages

ZIP	Area	Out	Customers i A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.	% out i Customers without power divided by all the customers the utility serves in this area.
31322	Pooler	394	20,387	1.93%
31410	Wilmington Island / Whitemarsh Island	155	11,947	1.30%
31405	Savannah / Garden City	12	19,870	0.06%
31406	Savannah / Montgomery	fewer than 5	18,517	0.01%
31302	Bloomingdale / Savannah	0	5,244	0.00%
31328	Tybee Island	0	4,309	0.00%
31401	Savannah	0	17,039	0.00%
31404	Savannah	0	15,684	0.00%
31407	Port Wentworth / Savannah	0	15,812	0.00%
31408	Garden City / Savannah	0	6,389	0.00%
31411	Skidaway Island	0	4,942	0.00%
31415	Savannah	0	5,915	0.00%
31419	Savannah	0	27,480	0.00%
31421	Savannah	0	318	0.00%

Outage history in Chatham County

2014–2025 record

Chatham County averaged 41 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for Georgia counties.

In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 36. Half were over within 1 hour; the longest lasted 8.5 hours, starting July 15, 2025.

The largest on record began October 7, 2016, with 141,489 customers out at once.

Outages are most common in July.

41significant outages a year (2023–2025)

At least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.

1 hourtypical (median) length

Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.

8 dayslongest on record (September 2024)

141,489most customers out at once

Largest events (start)	Peak out	Lasted i How long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power.	Customer-hours i Customers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours.
October 7, 2016	141,489	6.3 days	9,079,528
September 27, 2024	118,846	8 days	9,433,270
September 11, 2017	76,043	4.6 days	3,038,985
September 2, 2016	47,986	2.3 days	1,033,097
August 30, 2023	37,181	2.1 days	647,224

Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).

From EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.

Cities in Chatham County

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Utilities

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