Lauderdale County, Alabama Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Lauderdale County, Alabama had 30 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.50 times the US outage time per person and 1.37 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 24 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

4.3major outages per year

7 of 7years with a major outage

157 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Julhardest months

March and July made up 53% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 25, 2023, reached 26,166 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 157.0 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Alabama counties

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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	77,885	59	1
2018	166,010	104	2
2019	252,654	115	4
2020	198,834	54	8
2021	297,849	97	5
2022	204,144	113	3
2023	1,307,331	119	7

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 25, 2023	157.0	26,166	707,279
Mar 3, 2023	70.2	17,478	308,661
May 6, 2021	28.0	11,414	76,092
Jul 21, 2023	26.2	5,813	55,214
Apr 12, 2020	25.0	6,200	37,858

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.