Covington County, Alabama Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Covington County, Alabama had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.56 times the US outage time per person and 0.51 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 49 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

45 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Sephardest months

April and September made up 60% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 20, 2020, reached 7,212 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 44.8 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
2015	12,296	25	0
2016	25,380	26	2
2017	12,569	11	0
2018	21,148	34	0
2019	16,756	28	0
2020	261,655	46	3
2021	28,446	28	1
2022	5,842	16	0
2023	77,984	40	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
Apr 20, 2020	44.8	7,212	150,257
Sep 16, 2020	33.8	3,670	65,854
Jun 14, 2023	19.8	2,275	19,806
Apr 24, 2021	16.0	3,502	17,052
Jun 16, 2023	10.2	3,344	15,968

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.