Chambers County, Alabama Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Chambers County, Alabama had 9 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.50 times the US outage time per person and 0.46 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 51 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

6 of 7years with a major outage

106 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Junhardest months

October and June made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 2,470 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 106.0 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2017	5,528	4	1
2018	26,254	33	1
2019	38,687	38	1
2020	127,738	44	3
2021	17,149	32	0
2022	28,270	38	2
2023	44,654	45	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
Oct 29, 2020	106.0	2,470	88,360
Jun 22, 2019	18.2	3,357	13,327
Apr 13, 2020	12.8	1,228	10,741
Jan 12, 2023	18.5	1,362	10,273
Jul 21, 2022	13.2	995	6,223

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.