Randolph County, Alabama Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Randolph County, Alabama had 20 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.82 times the US outage time per person and 2.58 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 6 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

2.9major outages per year

7 of 7years with a major outage

106 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Dechardest months

October and December made up 62% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 10,098 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2017	186,431	10	1
2018	78,148	42	1
2019	63,418	44	2
2020	591,066	48	8
2021	56,085	28	1
2022	64,730	54	3
2023	73,166	55	4

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	10,098	470,218
Dec 8, 2017	61.8	5,854	182,392
Jan 12, 2020	39.2	3,710	46,970
Jun 28, 2018	27.2	2,790	41,736
Mar 26, 2021	41.8	3,272	30,326

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.