Wilcox County, Alabama Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Wilcox County, Alabama had 21 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 5.60 times the US outage time per person and 5.12 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 2 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.3major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

115 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Junhardest months

October and June made up 66% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 6,628 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 115.0 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	5,388	10	0
2016	22,330	13	1
2017	13,455	11	1
2018	79,552	44	1
2019	27,287	36	0
2020	724,600	51	4
2021	95,433	45	6
2022	41,995	36	1
2023	205,417	51	7

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	115.0	6,628	560,550
Nov 2, 2020	48.8	3,059	80,691
Jun 14, 2023	21.2	4,941	80,435
Jun 15, 2023	51.5	2,199	54,917
Jun 28, 2018	22.8	4,333	51,602

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.