Choctaw County, Alabama Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Choctaw County, Alabama had 5 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.74 times the US outage time per person and 0.68 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 46 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

4 of 7years with a major outage

30 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Dechardest months

June and December made up 47% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 8, 2017, reached 970 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 28.8 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	23,384	4	1
2018	16,491	25	1
2019	16,337	29	0
2020	25,117	33	1
2021	23,300	34	0
2022	10,524	20	0
2023	37,680	14	2

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
Dec 8, 2017	28.8	970	20,990
Jun 16, 2023	30.2	1,788	18,366
Jun 19, 2023	10.5	1,709	10,942
Oct 29, 2020	8.2	1,090	6,970
Aug 1, 2018	8.0	879	3,589

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.