Baldwin County, Alabama Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Baldwin County, Alabama had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.42 times the US outage time per person and 2.21 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 11 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

269 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 91% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 15, 2020, reached 126,286 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 269.0 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Alabama counties

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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	39,773	29	0
2016	106,067	86	0
2017	183,313	142	1
2018	220,830	152	2
2019	98,246	130	0
2020	12,726,814	171	3
2021	161,233	164	1
2022	188,208	148	2
2023	220,724	135	1

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
Sep 15, 2020	269.0	126,286	11,800,651
Oct 28, 2020	71.5	50,503	664,525
Jun 16, 2023	33.0	7,929	65,608
Jun 14, 2018	7.5	11,456	40,604
Oct 7, 2017	16.2	4,634	28,939

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.