Tuscaloosa County, Alabama Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Tuscaloosa County, Alabama had 25 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.50 times the US outage time per person and 0.46 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 51 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

3.6major outages per year

6 of 7years with a major outage

53 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Junhardest months

April and June made up 37% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 12, 2020, reached 13,999 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 53.2 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	20,401	23	0
2018	408,637	204	3
2019	281,422	186	3
2020	520,544	161	8
2021	260,972	176	4
2022	266,916	203	3
2023	315,266	185	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
Apr 12, 2020	53.2	13,999	230,509
Jun 28, 2018	26.2	17,897	159,687
Jul 19, 2023	20.0	7,404	66,540
Apr 18, 2019	27.5	8,290	64,433
Mar 30, 2022	27.8	3,091	40,511

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.