Russell County, Alabama Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Russell County, Alabama had 9 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.36 times the US outage time per person and 0.33 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 56 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

5 of 7years with a major outage

24 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Mayhardest months

October and May made up 30% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 10, 2018, reached 2,988 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 21.2 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	1,368	3	0
2018	96,548	52	3
2019	69,140	39	1
2020	88,209	65	2
2021	43,084	43	2
2022	35,422	58	0
2023	29,960	41	1

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
Oct 10, 2018	21.2	2,988	36,948
Sep 17, 2020	16.2	2,370	21,232
Apr 13, 2020	24.5	1,521	16,136
May 5, 2021	8.8	2,694	13,812
Jul 21, 2018	20.2	1,528	13,744

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.