Dale County, Alabama Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Dale County, Alabama had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.41 times the US outage time per person and 0.37 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 54 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

46 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aprhardest months

October and April made up 59% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 10, 2018, reached 6,111 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 46.2 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	942	2	0
2016	6,748	6	1
2017	1,881	6	0
2018	169,856	40	1
2019	13,223	24	0
2020	131,102	45	2
2021	21,054	25	1
2022	13,638	22	0
2023	89,603	29	3

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 10, 2018	46.2	6,111	148,046
Apr 20, 2020	42.5	7,463	91,950
Jun 14, 2023	19.5	6,165	63,907
Apr 13, 2020	9.2	1,547	8,090
Jun 15, 2023	13.2	1,448	7,586

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.