Tallapoosa County, Alabama Power Outages, 2016 to 2023

Tallapoosa County, Alabama had 22 major outages from 2016 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.15 times the US outage time per person and 1.96 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 14 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 8 years of records.

2.8major outages per year

7 of 8years with a major outage

106 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Janhardest months

October and January made up 50% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 15,368 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 106.2 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
2016	1,536	9	0
2017	66,326	15	1
2018	80,545	52	1
2019	68,957	70	1
2020	865,247	76	6
2021	157,590	56	2
2022	93,523	76	3
2023	376,910	99	8

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 29, 2020	106.2	15,368	529,873
Jan 12, 2023	44.0	9,619	192,238
Apr 19, 2020	61.8	11,146	168,152
May 4, 2021	9.8	7,606	62,748
Dec 8, 2017	44.5	4,017	62,554

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.