Mobile County, Alabama Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Mobile County, Alabama had 27 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.01 times the US outage time per person and 1.83 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 16 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

3.9major outages per year

6 of 7years with a major outage

134 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 75% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 15, 2020, reached 143,114 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 134.2 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2017	85,999	58	0
2018	698,050	323	2
2019	599,439	326	5
2020	10,803,579	392	7
2021	721,466	322	2
2022	608,555	362	6
2023	649,654	324	5

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
Sep 15, 2020	134.2	143,114	6,398,854
Oct 29, 2020	107.0	114,158	3,468,922
Sep 4, 2018	27.8	24,425	308,464
Apr 24, 2021	31.2	19,712	169,535
Nov 2, 2020	50.8	4,877	135,046

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.