City of Calhoun, GA
City of Calhoun's outage record
City of Calhoun customers in Georgia had 1 interruptions last year, 1.9 hours total - a bit below the typical US utility's outage time. That is 57% less outage time than the Georgia state average of 4.5 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Calhoun looks like
A single outage here averages 1.9 hours. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for City of Calhoun
Serving 6,412 customers here, Nothing here says you should buy a generator today - City of Calhoun's record is a little better than most of the country, though it is worth checking your own past outages before ruling one out.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Calhoun files with federal regulators every year - serving 6,412 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Georgia as a whole, across every utility that filed: Georgia's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.