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

Power outage history

Cleburne County Alabama

27hours

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

3rd most of 60 in Alabama 4.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Zeta · Oct 29, 2020 100% of customers out · 90% back in 4.4 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 27h / yr State average 7.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 7.5 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 6hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.5days Hurricane Zeta, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 52% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 3.6 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 6,993 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 Cleburne'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 3.6 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Cleburne, hours without power per customer

CleburneUS median countyAlabama average
0 20 40 60 80 100 ’17 24 ’18 14 ’19 86 ’20 9.5 ’21 17 ’22 17 ’23 18 ’24 33 ’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 29, 2020 Hurricane Zeta 6,993 100% 5.5 d 4.4 d 412k
Dec 8, 2017 Winter storm 6,993 100% 2.9 d 47 h 318k
Jan 11, 2020 Thunderstorms 3,805 54% 2.5 d 42 h 104k
Jun 28, 2018 No storm report 2,843 41% 46 h 28 h 43k
Mar 19, 2018 Thunderstorms 2,331 33% 47 h 38 h 40k
Feb 16, 2025 Thunderstorms 2,388 34% 37 h 25 h 37k
May 2, 2025 No storm report 6,993 100% 23 h 6.5 h 31k
Apr 10, 2024 Windstorm 2,338 33% 25 h 23 h 24k
Jun 7, 2025 No storm report 1,034 15% 32 h 29 h 22k
Jun 15, 2022 No storm report 1,631 23% 23 h 18 h 18k
Mar 3, 2023 No storm report 1,152 16% 26 h 23 h 16k
Apr 10, 2025 No storm report 2,203 32% 18 h 16 h 15k

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 +10h 90% by +30h

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 Cleburne from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 48%
  • Tropical storm 31%
  • Thunderstorms 17%
  • Windstorm 1.8%
  • Flooding 1.3%
  • Tornadoes 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Cleburne

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

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 6,993 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 →