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

Power outage history

Fayette County Alabama

17hours

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

12th most of 60 in Alabama 2.7× the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 3, 2023 76% of customers out · 90% back in 32 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 17h / yr State average 7.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 7.0 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 2.2days Mar 3, 2023, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 48% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 29 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 7,831 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 Fayette'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

2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 29 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Fayette, hours without power per customer

FayetteUS median countyAlabama average
0 10 20 30 40 0.7 ’17 9.2 ’18 18 ’19 15 ’20 11 ’21 10 ’22 29 ’23 18 ’24 29 ’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
Mar 3, 2023 Thunderstorms 5,915 76% 2.2 d 32 h 116k
Apr 18, 2019 Thunderstorms 3,596 46% 40 h 28 h 58k
Apr 12, 2020 Tornadoes 3,193 41% 47 h 36 h 51k
Feb 15, 2025 Thunderstorms 3,003 38% 36 h 31 h 47k
Jun 7, 2025 No storm report 2,649 34% 33 h 27 h 39k
Mar 4, 2025 No storm report 2,202 28% 30 h 24 h 31k
Jun 5, 2024 Tornadoes 1,933 25% 23 h 20 h 30k
Dec 28, 2024 Thunderstorms 2,153 27% 25 h 16 h 24k
Jul 18, 2023 No storm report 1,826 23% 21 h 20 h 20k
Aug 6, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,035 26% 22 h 15 h 16k
Sep 12, 2024 Hurricane Francine 1,422 18% 31 h 12 h 13k
Mar 23, 2020 No storm report 1,387 18% 17 h 18 h 12k

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 +22h

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

  • No storm on record 52%
  • Thunderstorms 34%
  • Tornadoes 9.6%
  • Tropical storm 3.4%
  • Winter storm 0.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Fayette

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
Tombigbee Electric Coop, Inc AL 929 533 4.33 13.9 96k

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+

All Alabama 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 7,831 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 →