Blount County, Alabama Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Blount County, Alabama had 27 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.18 times the US outage time per person and 1.08 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 31 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

3.9major outages per year

6 of 7years with a major outage

74 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Marhardest months

April and March made up 51% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 12, 2020, reached 13,470 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 74.0 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	3,984	6	0
2018	138,264	81	4
2019	122,928	79	4
2020	508,986	79	4
2021	89,587	75	4
2022	155,517	104	5
2023	197,170	80	6

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
Apr 12, 2020	74.0	13,470	395,044
Mar 3, 2023	33.8	4,580	58,907
Dec 9, 2018	24.8	6,359	55,152
Mar 30, 2022	25.5	2,983	41,183
Mar 14, 2019	32.8	2,610	39,888

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.