Franklin County, Alabama Power Outages, 2018 to 2023

Franklin County, Alabama had 10 major outages from 2018 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.73 times the US outage time per person and 0.67 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 47 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 6 years of records.

1.7major outages per year

5 of 6years with a major outage

42 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Marhardest months

February and March made up 71% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 4,842 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 35.8 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
2018	16,652	20	1
2019	18,006	16	2
2020	9,173	18	0
2021	189,278	21	3
2022	21,242	24	1
2023	88,512	26	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
Feb 15, 2021	35.8	4,842	78,801
Feb 18, 2021	31.2	4,671	66,494
Mar 3, 2023	41.8	2,290	47,037
Feb 18, 2021	10.8	4,195	29,728
Aug 6, 2023	23.2	1,520	13,020

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.