Power Outages in Ben Hill County, GA
No live outage feed is available for Ben Hill County, GA yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 0.8 hours.
Ben Hill County, GA is served by local tracked utilities.
Ben Hill County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
No active NWS alerts for Ben Hill County right now.
Ben Hill County has been under 5 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Severe Thunderstorm Warning on July 18, 2026.
- Special Weather Statement ×3
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning ×1
- Severe Thunderstorm Watch ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Ben Hill County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Ben Hill County went about 0.8 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 4,143 customers.
Worst year here was 2024 (peak 4,143 customers out) · decade average 5.4 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | 27 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 21 | 28 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 157 | 3,204 | 10.4 |
| 2018 | 240 | 3,146 | 12.6 |
| 2019 | 267 | 1,703 | 1.1 |
| 2020 | 236 | 791 | 1.6 |
| 2021 | 248 | 1,043 | 1.3 |
| 2022 | 262 | 823 | 1.8 |
| 2023 | 372 | 2,048 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 299 | 4,143 | 26.4 |
| 2025 | 276 | 695 | 0.8 |
Relatively Low hurricanes exposure · 5.4 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability very high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Ben Hill County: FAQ
- How often does Ben Hill County, GA lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Ben Hill County, GA logged 276 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 0.8 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Ben Hill County, GA?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 4,143 customers without power, beginning September 27, 2024 and lasting about 10d 17h.
- Is there a power outage in Ben Hill County, GA right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Ben Hill County, GA. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Ben Hill County.
31750
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/13017 and /api/v1/counties/13017/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Georgia customers).