Cleburne County, Alabama Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Cleburne County, Alabama had 21 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.58 times the US outage time per person and 4.19 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 3 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

3.0major outages per year

6 of 7years with a major outage

106 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Dechardest months

October and December made up 63% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 8,104 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 106.5 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2017	322,114	8	1
2018	131,387	50	4
2019	56,128	45	0
2020	565,870	46	4
2021	30,004	28	1
2022	69,717	42	5
2023	71,851	35	6

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	106.5	8,104	419,525
Dec 8, 2017	69.0	7,306	318,256
Jan 12, 2020	44.2	3,805	87,271
Jun 28, 2018	27.5	2,843	40,881
Mar 20, 2018	39.8	2,331	38,642

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.