Autauga County, Alabama Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Autauga County, Alabama had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.31 times the US outage time per person and 1.19 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 28 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

114 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Mayhardest months

October and May made up 64% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 14,652 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 114.2 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	39,412	26	0
2016	20,314	28	0
2017	68,040	44	1
2018	70,933	66	2
2019	54,510	85	0
2020	981,670	81	7
2021	300,130	68	2
2022	54,244	57	0
2023	176,314	69	2

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Oct 29, 2020	114.2	14,652	778,418
May 4, 2021	47.0	15,462	252,371
Jan 12, 2023	52.0	6,873	65,505
Sep 16, 2020	27.2	6,978	58,989
Nov 2, 2020	59.8	1,757	37,899

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.