Power Outages in Putnam County, GA
No live outage feed is available for Putnam County, GA yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 11.0 hours.
Putnam County, GA is served by local tracked utilities.
Putnam 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 Putnam County right now.
Putnam County has been under 38 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Special Weather Statement on August 18, 2026.
- Heat Advisory ×21
- Special Weather Statement ×12
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning ×4
- Severe Thunderstorm Watch ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Putnam County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Putnam County went about 11.0 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 14,823 customers.
Worst year here was 2017 (peak 14,823 customers out) · decade average 13.8 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 336 | 1,827 | 1.6 |
| 2016 | 357 | 3,077 | 4.5 |
| 2017 | 487 | 14,823 | 80.2 |
| 2018 | 559 | 3,057 | 9.1 |
| 2019 | 595 | 3,902 | 3.8 |
| 2020 | 538 | 4,878 | 7.2 |
| 2021 | 572 | 2,334 | 3.6 |
| 2022 | 570 | 5,222 | 11.9 |
| 2023 | 557 | 4,253 | 7.1 |
| 2024 | 301 | 4,604 | 12.3 |
| 2025 | 591 | 4,354 | 11.0 |
Relatively Low hurricanes exposure · 13.8 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 Putnam County: FAQ
- How often does Putnam County, GA lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Putnam County, GA logged 591 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 11.0 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Putnam County, GA?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 14,823 customers without power, beginning September 11, 2017 and lasting about 6d 2h.
- Is there a power outage in Putnam County, GA right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Putnam County, GA. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Putnam County.
31024
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/13237 and /api/v1/counties/13237/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Georgia customers).