Fayette County, Alabama Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Fayette County, Alabama had 13 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.88 times the US outage time per person and 1.72 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 19 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

1.9major outages per year

6 of 7years with a major outage

50 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Aprhardest months

March and April made up 51% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 3, 2023, reached 5,915 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 49.8 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	1,305	4	0
2018	40,959	48	1
2019	98,526	57	1
2020	86,315	35	3
2021	48,521	56	2
2022	40,044	42	2
2023	194,605	50	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
Mar 3, 2023	49.8	5,915	115,145
Apr 19, 2019	31.5	3,596	56,258
Apr 12, 2020	44.5	3,193	50,867
Jul 19, 2023	20.2	1,826	19,870
Aug 6, 2023	16.5	2,035	15,870

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.