Marion County, Alabama Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Marion County, Alabama had 22 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.78 times the US outage time per person and 1.63 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 20 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

3.1major outages per year

7 of 7years with a major outage

74 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Febhardest months

March and February made up 56% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 3, 2023, reached 10,346 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 73.5 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	24,482	19	1
2018	48,002	63	1
2019	76,780	56	4
2020	66,212	60	3
2021	288,408	69	6
2022	50,788	57	1
2023	339,811	65	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
Mar 3, 2023	73.5	10,346	192,061
Feb 15, 2021	47.5	5,951	100,944
Feb 18, 2021	33.5	5,090	58,278
Mar 25, 2023	34.0	5,464	43,998
Feb 18, 2021	12.8	3,654	36,939

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.