Elmore County, Alabama Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Elmore County, Alabama had 23 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.25 times the US outage time per person and 1.14 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 30 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.6major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

114 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Mayhardest months

October and May made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 28,606 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 113.8 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	52,077	37	0
2016	34,394	35	1
2017	101,120	57	3
2018	206,251	127	3
2019	139,480	108	3
2020	1,223,293	120	4
2021	253,173	101	1
2022	124,082	100	3
2023	360,804	128	5

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	113.8	28,606	942,586
May 4, 2021	49.5	11,804	187,414
Jan 12, 2023	45.8	8,995	146,369
Sep 16, 2020	30.5	10,168	114,104
Mar 27, 2023	23.0	6,425	62,168

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.