Greene County, Alabama Power Outages, 2018 to 2023

Greene County, Alabama had 6 major outages from 2018 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.86 times the US outage time per person and 0.79 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 43 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 6 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

3 of 6years with a major outage

25 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Novhardest months

June and November made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 30, 2022, reached 882 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 24.8 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
2018	6,376	11	0
2019	11,176	9	0
2020	23,564	17	2
2021	7,126	4	0
2022	21,298	5	2
2023	20,549	8	2

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
Nov 30, 2022	24.8	882	14,425
Oct 29, 2020	23.2	656	9,515
Jan 12, 2023	11.2	929	8,488
Jun 14, 2023	10.8	1,290	6,638
Apr 14, 2022	11.8	477	4,814

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.