Dallas County, Alabama Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Dallas County, Alabama had 22 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.14 times the US outage time per person and 3.78 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 5 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.4major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

115 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Janhardest months

October and January made up 69% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 22,935 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 114.8 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	15,042	13	0
2016	23,218	20	1
2017	72,091	32	2
2018	95,818	86	1
2019	74,182	70	2
2020	2,106,105	103	5
2021	154,753	89	3
2022	75,418	79	1
2023	620,502	99	7

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	114.8	22,935	1,714,606
Jan 12, 2023	81.0	15,358	392,280
Nov 2, 2020	73.8	6,657	205,686
Jun 14, 2023	22.5	12,345	88,674
May 4, 2021	40.5	4,201	56,102

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.