Sumter County, Alabama Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Sumter County, Alabama had 10 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.01 times the US outage time per person and 0.92 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 37 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

6 of 7years with a major outage

22 hrslongest major outage

May, Julhardest months

May and July made up 39% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 5, 2021, reached 1,813 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 22.0 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	5,622	6	1
2018	12,210	15	0
2019	12,871	23	1
2020	29,165	28	1
2021	62,169	24	3
2022	40,614	25	2
2023	37,879	34	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
May 5, 2021	22.0	1,813	25,163
May 4, 2021	12.0	2,482	20,928
Jul 22, 2022	7.5	2,598	14,025
Apr 13, 2020	8.5	1,511	7,770
Sep 1, 2021	12.5	1,508	6,743

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.