Hale County, Alabama Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Hale County, Alabama had 16 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.93 times the US outage time per person and 0.85 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 39 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

2.3major outages per year

6 of 7years with a major outage

30 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Marhardest months

June and March made up 38% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 17, 2021, reached 2,690 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 18.5 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
2017	1,652	8	0
2018	15,882	25	1
2019	21,586	27	2
2020	55,208	36	2
2021	66,512	31	4
2022	39,980	24	3
2023	40,428	28	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 17, 2021	18.5	2,690	15,455
Mar 25, 2021	29.8	799	14,486
Apr 14, 2022	16.5	1,090	13,969
May 4, 2021	11.2	3,008	13,460
Jun 17, 2023	21.5	1,411	12,401

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.