Is the power out in 30016?

Live answer for ZIP 30016 (Porterdale 0% of the ZIP; Newton County), from Georgia Power, updated every 10 minutes.

Right now in 30016

No. The utility reports no outages in 30016 right now.

0.00% of 737 customers

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

Updated 8 min ago

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Outage map

ZIP 30016Newton CountyOutage (size = customers)

Each dot is an outage the utility reports, placed where the utility puts it, often the middle of the affected area rather than a specific home. Tap a dot for the number of customers and the utility's estimated restoration time.

Neighboring ZIP codes

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.
30070	Porterdale	–	–	–
30014	Covington / Porterdale	0	1,221	0.00%
30055	Mansfield	0	2	0.00%
30054	Oxford / Covington	0	383	0.00%

Outage history in Newton County, which includes 30016

2014–2025 record

Newton County averaged 22.3 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for Georgia counties.

In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 21. Half were over within 45 minutes; the longest lasted 12 hours, starting February 16, 2025.

The largest on record began September 11, 2017, with 16,278 customers out at once.

22.3significant 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.

1.5 hourstypical (median) length

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

3.7 dayslongest on record (January 2023)

16,278most 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.
September 11, 2017	16,278	2.5 days	269,261
February 28, 2020	10,891	30 minutes	5,446
January 5, 2024	7,877	30 minutes	3,932
July 31, 2024	7,056	2 hours	6,737
January 12, 2023	6,937	3.7 days	206,284

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.

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