Macon County, Alabama Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Macon County, Alabama had 6 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.52 times the US outage time per person and 0.48 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 50 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

5 of 7years with a major outage

26 hrslongest major outage

May, Junhardest months

May and June made up 50% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 5, 2021, reached 2,399 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 25.5 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2017	12,560	7	1
2018	21,010	22	0
2019	26,770	16	1
2020	24,324	18	2
2021	49,106	17	1
2022	15,532	14	1
2023	12,731	21	0

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
May 5, 2021	25.5	2,399	41,454
Jun 16, 2022	8.2	2,538	8,290
Jan 19, 2019	3.5	2,084	6,758
Oct 29, 2020	10.8	859	5,184
Jun 15, 2017	10.0	584	5,120

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.