Lamar County, Alabama Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Lamar County, Alabama had 20 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.68 times the US outage time per person and 2.45 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 8 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

2.9major outages per year

6 of 7years with a major outage

72 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Febhardest months

March and February made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 3, 2023, reached 4,330 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 71.5 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	9,992	14	0
2018	27,940	30	1
2019	167,274	57	7
2020	63,714	42	1
2021	123,964	39	4
2022	61,537	48	3
2023	167,513	41	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 3, 2023	71.5	4,330	114,686
Feb 15, 2021	51.2	2,498	56,392
Apr 18, 2019	44.0	3,341	55,615
Apr 13, 2020	22.8	2,483	27,892
Feb 18, 2021	30.2	1,138	23,849

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.