Coffee County, Alabama Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.45 times the US outage time per person and 0.41 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 53 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

66 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Junhardest months

April and June made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 20, 2020, reached 5,211 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 66.0 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
2015	11,381	21	0
2016	23,844	22	0
2017	15,194	16	0
2018	75,800	47	1
2019	17,980	28	0
2020	183,519	52	3
2021	54,615	41	2
2022	49,653	56	0
2023	123,808	57	4

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 20, 2020	66.0	5,211	112,343
Jun 14, 2023	19.8	6,088	69,710
Apr 13, 2020	12.8	3,416	22,393
Jan 28, 2021	4.8	5,189	14,472
Oct 10, 2018	19.2	1,488	13,624

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.