Winston County, Alabama Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Winston County, Alabama had 28 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.28 times the US outage time per person and 2.08 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 12 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

4.0major outages per year

7 of 7years with a major outage

56 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Aughardest months

March and August made up 43% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 3, 2023, reached 10,383 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 56.5 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	24,555	28	1
2018	63,672	50	1
2019	133,570	63	4
2020	121,739	73	4
2021	131,628	52	7
2022	88,922	60	3
2023	366,644	55	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
Mar 3, 2023	56.5	10,383	207,986
Aug 24, 2019	8.8	7,279	48,692
Mar 25, 2023	19.5	4,223	37,319
Oct 17, 2020	5.2	6,480	33,177
Aug 6, 2023	15.2	2,656	26,177

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.