Geneva County, Alabama Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Geneva County, Alabama had 6 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.91 times the US outage time per person and 0.83 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 41 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

117 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aprhardest months

October and April made up 74% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 10, 2018, reached 10,055 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 116.8 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	7,102	15	0
2016	3,092	6	0
2017	7,286	20	0
2018	346,600	36	1
2019	9,524	18	0
2020	71,037	63	3
2021	35,415	32	1
2022	19,876	37	0
2023	47,989	49	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 10, 2018	116.8	10,055	326,438
Apr 20, 2020	11.8	3,444	25,159
Jun 15, 2023	19.0	1,456	16,748
Apr 24, 2021	13.8	1,620	12,575
Apr 13, 2020	9.8	1,190	6,410

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.