Power outage history
Crenshaw County Alabama
9.7hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
25th most of 60 in Alabama 1.5× the national median
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 Crenshaw's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 28 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Crenshaw, hours without power per customer
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 3,122 | 38% | 3.9 d | 2.5 d | 113k |
| Jun 14, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 4,617 | 57% | 3.1 d | 37 h | 95k |
| Sep 16, 2020 | Hurricane Sally | 1,977 | 24% | 30 h | 24 h | 26k |
| Jun 19, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 5,198 | 64% | 14 h | 6.2 h | 24k |
| Oct 28, 2020 | Hurricane Zeta | 1,383 | 17% | 2.4 d | 30 h | 23k |
| May 10, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 2,104 | 26% | 17 h | 7.5 h | 13k |
| Jul 30, 2020 | No storm report | 972 | 12% | 15 h | 18 h | 13k |
| Jun 28, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 1,636 | 20% | 25 h | 1.8 h | 12k |
| Apr 12, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,516 | 19% | 20 h | 10 h | 8.5k |
| Apr 3, 2017 | Tornadoes | 1,147 | 14% | 16 h | 8.0 h | 7.8k |
| Jan 11, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,950 | 24% | 13 h | 9.0 h | 7.2k |
| Oct 7, 2022 | No storm report | 2,834 | 35% | 3.0 h | 2.8 h | 7.1k |
| Feb 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,637 | 32% | 9.8 h | 8.2 h | 6.7k |
| Jan 8, 2024 | No storm report | 1,099 | 14% | 20 h | 2.0 h | 6.3k |
| May 28, 2018 | Tropical Storm Alberto | 3,054 | 38% | 9.2 h | 1.2 h | 6.1k |
| Apr 5, 2022 | Tornadoes | 1,301 | 16% | 7.8 h | 5.8 h | 5.6k |
| Jun 9, 2019 | No storm report | 1,310 | 16% | 4.2 h | 2.2 h | 5.6k |
| May 24, 2020 | No storm report | 847 | 10% | 6.8 h | 5.8 h | 5.3k |
| Dec 30, 2022 | No storm report | 1,983 | 24% | 6.5 h | 1.0 h | 4.7k |
| Jun 17, 2016 | No storm report | 1,152 | 14% | 9.0 h | 8.0 h | 3.9k |
| Jul 18, 2021 | No storm report | 964 | 12% | 5.8 h | 14 h | 3.9k |
| Aug 4, 2023 | No storm report | 1,741 | 21% | 4.2 h | 3.5 h | 3.9k |
| Dec 14, 2023 | No storm report | 623 | 8% | 6.5 h | 6.5 h | 3.5k |
| Jul 12, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 586 | 7% | 12 h | 3.5 h | 3.2k |
| Mar 15, 2025 | No storm report | 1,554 | 19% | 4.0 h | 4.2 h | 2.7k |
| Jul 16, 2024 | No storm report | 795 | 10% | 3.5 h | 3.8 h | 2.7k |
| Aug 21, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 470 | 6% | 6.0 h | 12 h | 2.6k |
| Nov 30, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 776 | 10% | 5.8 h | 4.0 h | 2.6k |
| Aug 13, 2023 | No storm report | 1,550 | 19% | 2.2 h | 1.8 h | 2.4k |
| Mar 12, 2022 | No storm report | 446 | 5% | 7.5 h | 4.0 h | 2.4k |
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.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Crenshaw from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 53%
- No storm on record 35%
- Tropical storm 10%
- Tornadoes 2.0%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Crenshaw
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 |
| Covington Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 211 | 86 | 2.29 | 17.6 | 24k |
| City of Luverne | AL | – | – | – | – | 21k |
| South Alabama Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 235 | 159 | 2.35 | 15.8 | 17k |
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
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 8,129 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 →