Power outage history
Barbour County Alabama
6.2hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
36th most of 60 in Alabama close to 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 Barbour's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 12 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Barbour, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 10, 2018 | Hurricane Michael | 5,515 | 44% | 45 h | 26 h | 116k |
| Apr 19, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 3,053 | 25% | 41 h | 35 h | 49k |
| Apr 12, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 3,590 | 29% | 20 h | 14 h | 22k |
| Jun 14, 2023 | Tornadoes | 1,325 | 11% | 30 h | 25 h | 19k |
| May 10, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 2,651 | 21% | 9.5 h | 8.2 h | 12k |
| Sep 16, 2020 | Hurricane Sally | 1,331 | 11% | 28 h | 20 h | 9.9k |
| Mar 3, 2019 | Tornadoes | 2,422 | 20% | 8.5 h | 8.2 h | 8.5k |
| Apr 24, 2021 | No storm report | 791 | 6% | 28 h | 7.0 h | 8.5k |
| Aug 8, 2023 | Heat | 2,316 | 19% | 9.0 h | 5.5 h | 8.2k |
| May 4, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,488 | 12% | 13 h | 11 h | 8.1k |
| May 22, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,386 | 11% | 11 h | 9.2 h | 8.0k |
| Jun 15, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,681 | 14% | 8.2 h | 7.8 h | 7.8k |
| Jan 2, 2022 | No storm report | 979 | 8% | 13 h | 11 h | 6.7k |
| May 27, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,592 | 13% | 8.0 h | 4.5 h | 5.5k |
| Aug 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,377 | 11% | 8.0 h | 7.0 h | 5.5k |
| Jun 10, 2023 | No storm report | 2,949 | 24% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 5.2k |
| Oct 8, 2017 | Hurricane Nate | 1,109 | 9% | 5.2 h | 1.2 h | 4.7k |
| Aug 18, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 887 | 7% | 11 h | 8.5 h | 4.3k |
| Mar 31, 2020 | Tornadoes | 1,096 | 9% | 4.8 h | 4.8 h | 4.2k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | No storm report | 544 | 4% | 17 h | – | 4.2k |
| Mar 4, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 781 | 6% | 7.2 h | 5.5 h | 3.9k |
| Aug 6, 2023 | Heat | 433 | 3% | 13 h | – | 3.6k |
| Jan 11, 2020 | Tornadoes | 1,052 | 8% | 6.5 h | 5.5 h | 3.4k |
| Jan 4, 2020 | No storm report | 2,604 | 21% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 3.3k |
| Apr 10, 2025 | No storm report | 436 | 4% | 11 h | – | 3.2k |
| Mar 12, 2022 | No storm report | 425 | 3% | 10 h | – | 3.1k |
| Feb 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 564 | 5% | 7.8 h | – | 3.0k |
| Apr 5, 2022 | Tornadoes | 973 | 8% | 5.2 h | 5.5 h | 2.7k |
| Jul 1, 2019 | No storm report | 3,386 | 27% | 1.0 h | 1.5 h | 2.6k |
| Dec 10, 2023 | No storm report | 1,290 | 10% | 2.0 h | 30 min | 2.6k |
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 Barbour from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 32%
- Tropical storm 28%
- Thunderstorms 28%
- Tornadoes 8.3%
- Heat 2.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Barbour
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 |
| Tallapoosa River Elec Coop Inc | Cooperative | 567 | 268 | 3.06 | 14.8 | 30k |
| Dixie Electric Coop | Cooperative | 258 | 118 | 2.04 | 15.4 | 22k |
| Pea River Electric Coop | Cooperative | – | – | – | 17.6 | 15k |
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
- Clay, GA 36 h
- Quitman, GA 18 h
- Stewart, GA 12 h
- Henry 9.7 h
- Barbour (this county) 6.2 h
- Bullock 6.0 h
- Russell 3.8 h
- Pike 3.2 h
- Dale 3.2 h
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 12,400 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 →