Washington County, Alabama Power Outages, 2018 to 2023

Washington County, Alabama had 4 major outages from 2018 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.31 times the US outage time per person and 0.28 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 57 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 6 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

2 of 6years with a major outage

107 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Novhardest months

October and November made up 89% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 561 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 107.0 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
2018	3,320	6	1
2019	750	3	0
2020	62,719	14	3
2021	0	0	0
2022	0	0	0
2023	1,469	1	0

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	107.0	561	42,112
Nov 2, 2020	45.5	467	16,635
Sep 5, 2018	9.0	260	2,307
Sep 16, 2020	9.5	211	1,994
Jun 16, 2023	5.0	383	1,469

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.