Jefferson County, Alabama Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Jefferson County, Alabama had 38 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.89 times the US outage time per person and 0.81 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 42 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

5.4major outages per year

7 of 7years with a major outage

80 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Dechardest months

June and December made up 29% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 12, 2020, reached 34,661 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 62.2 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	145,572	104	1
2018	1,918,337	606	6
2019	1,015,952	662	5
2020	2,084,512	597	7
2021	1,662,121	597	4
2022	1,776,268	536	9
2023	1,487,500	556	6

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
Apr 12, 2020	62.2	34,661	647,579
Dec 8, 2018	56.0	31,934	459,305
Jun 28, 2018	27.2	47,818	445,248
Dec 10, 2023	59.2	25,348	368,212
Oct 29, 2020	79.8	15,877	287,774

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.