Monroe County, Alabama Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Monroe County, Alabama had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.63 times the US outage time per person and 1.49 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 23 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

116 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 81% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 5,909 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 116.0 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Alabama counties

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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	265	2	0
2016	868	3	0
2017	6,557	14	0
2018	21,631	22	0
2019	13,976	27	0
2020	570,951	29	2
2021	18,444	25	1
2022	17,750	30	0
2023	31,553	33	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
Oct 29, 2020	116.0	5,909	299,298
Sep 16, 2020	116.5	6,793	244,328
Jun 18, 2023	9.0	2,169	8,548
Jun 16, 2023	11.5	652	6,257
Jul 12, 2018	3.5	3,039	6,169

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.