Power Out Map
– 0% of Autauga out 0 customers out in Alabama

Power outage history

Autauga County Alabama

11hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

21st most of 60 in Alabama 1.6× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Zeta · Oct 29, 2020 60% of customers out · 90% back in 4.5 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 11h / yr State average 7.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.8 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 4hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 7.3days Hurricane Zeta, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 78% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 41 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 24,619 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Autauga's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 41 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Autauga, hours without power per customer

AutaugaUS median countyAlabama average
0 10 20 30 40 50 1.9 ’15 1.3 ’16 3.5 ’17 3.9 ’18 3.3 ’19 41 ’20 13 ’21 3.7 ’22 8.7 ’23 5.0 ’24 6.5 ’25 AL 7.0 US 6.6

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Oct 28, 2020 Hurricane Zeta 14,652 60% 7.3 d 4.5 d 816k
May 4, 2021 Thunderstorms 15,462 63% 46 h 25 h 252k
Feb 16, 2025 Thunderstorms 6,115 25% 35 h 18 h 66k
Jan 12, 2023 Tornadoes 6,873 28% 2.2 d 26 h 65k
Sep 16, 2020 Hurricane Sally 6,978 28% 29 h 15 h 59k
Dec 8, 2017 Winter storm 2,878 12% 25 h 10 h 30k
Mar 26, 2023 Tornadoes 5,831 24% 19 h 8.5 h 28k
Apr 12, 2020 No storm report 8,329 34% 15 h 3.2 h 15k
May 5, 2015 No storm report 1,384 6% 12 h 19 h 14k
May 29, 2018 Tropical Storm Alberto 2,556 10% 14 h 8.5 h 13k
Jan 4, 2023 No storm report 4,758 19% 5.8 h 4.0 h 12k
Jun 5, 2020 No storm report 4,554 19% 3.5 h 2.8 h 11k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +4h 90% by +12h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Autauga from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Tropical storm 50%
  • No storm on record 22%
  • Thunderstorms 21%
  • Tornadoes 5.9%
  • Flooding 0.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Autauga

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Alabama territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Alabama Power Co Investor Owned 410 108 2.06 17.9 1.3M
Pioneer Electric Coop, Inc AL 227 227 2.21 16.4 146k
Central Alabama Electric Coop Cooperative 469 189 – 17.2 46k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Alabama

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

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About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 24,619 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →