Coosa County, Alabama Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Coosa County, Alabama had 29 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 5.81 times the US outage time per person and 5.31 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 1 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.2major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

113 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aprhardest months

October and April made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 6,664 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 112.8 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	25,000	15	2
2016	18,500	27	0
2017	122,671	18	2
2018	64,109	33	3
2019	50,773	43	1
2020	841,099	54	8
2021	48,938	38	2
2022	47,445	35	4
2023	98,234	41	7

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	112.8	6,664	525,783
Apr 19, 2020	65.5	6,710	163,684
Dec 8, 2017	52.2	5,835	107,744
Nov 2, 2020	74.0	1,863	71,268
Jun 28, 2018	26.8	4,223	43,301

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.