Henry County, Alabama Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Henry County, Alabama had 8 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.36 times the US outage time per person and 1.24 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 25 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

5 of 7years with a major outage

79 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aprhardest months

October and April made up 75% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 10, 2018, reached 7,533 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 78.8 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	555	1	0
2018	270,918	18	1
2019	4,812	12	0
2020	77,526	29	3
2021	21,562	25	1
2022	21,556	23	2
2023	24,012	26	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	78.8	7,533	254,802
Apr 20, 2020	43.8	2,300	45,026
May 22, 2022	14.8	868	8,585
Jun 15, 2023	17.8	717	7,052
Jan 3, 2022	13.0	500	5,190

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.