Bibb County, Alabama Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Bibb County, Alabama had 18 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.96 times the US outage time per person and 1.79 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 17 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

2.6major outages per year

7 of 7years with a major outage

105 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Marhardest months

October and March made up 51% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 8,648 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 104.8 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
2017	36,327	6	1
2018	93,002	32	3
2019	54,203	63	1
2020	273,548	59	3
2021	161,878	55	5
2022	75,058	53	3
2023	53,578	48	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	104.8	8,648	198,493
Mar 25, 2021	55.5	4,949	116,137
Jun 28, 2018	26.0	3,969	64,248
Dec 8, 2017	30.2	3,055	32,936
Mar 30, 2022	25.0	2,887	24,541

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.