Power outage history
Macon County Alabama
3.1hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
53rd most of 60 in Alabama 52% below 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 Macon's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 4.4 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Macon, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 2021 | Tornadoes | 2,399 | 16% | 27 h | 24 h | 42k |
| Feb 16, 2025 | Tornadoes | 1,554 | 10% | 37 h | 34 h | 27k |
| May 9, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,808 | 12% | 21 h | 20 h | 19k |
| Apr 10, 2025 | No storm report | 2,815 | 19% | 12 h | 9.5 h | 12k |
| Dec 29, 2024 | Tornadoes | 1,403 | 9% | 15 h | 12 h | 12k |
| Jun 15, 2022 | No storm report | 2,538 | 17% | 9.2 h | 6.8 h | 8.5k |
| Mar 16, 2025 | No storm report | 902 | 6% | 9.8 h | 4.0 h | 8.1k |
| Jan 19, 2019 | No storm report | 2,084 | 14% | 4.8 h | 3.2 h | 6.9k |
| Oct 29, 2020 | Hurricane Zeta | 859 | 6% | 12 h | 8.5 h | 5.4k |
| Jun 15, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 584 | 4% | 10 h | – | 5.1k |
| Mar 3, 2019 | Tornadoes | 711 | 5% | 14 h | – | 4.8k |
| Jun 24, 2017 | No storm report | 971 | 6% | 4.8 h | 4.8 h | 4.6k |
| Sep 30, 2024 | No storm report | 725 | 5% | 6.0 h | – | 4.3k |
| Apr 13, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,138 | 8% | 7.5 h | 5.5 h | 4.1k |
| Sep 16, 2020 | Hurricane Sally | 358 | 2% | 17 h | – | 3.6k |
| Dec 30, 2022 | No storm report | 586 | 4% | 5.8 h | – | 3.3k |
| Aug 18, 2024 | No storm report | 586 | 4% | 11 h | – | 3.2k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | No storm report | 389 | 3% | 14 h | – | 3.1k |
| Nov 7, 2020 | No storm report | 614 | 4% | 7.0 h | – | 3.0k |
| Aug 11, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,091 | 7% | 5.8 h | 5.5 h | 3.0k |
| Jun 26, 2018 | No storm report | 1,578 | 11% | 2.5 h | 1.0 h | 3.0k |
| Apr 10, 2024 | No storm report | 649 | 4% | 5.8 h | – | 2.8k |
| Apr 6, 2019 | No storm report | 610 | 4% | 6.8 h | – | 2.7k |
| Jul 14, 2019 | No storm report | 475 | 3% | 9.5 h | – | 2.7k |
| Aug 29, 2018 | No storm report | 1,503 | 10% | 3.5 h | 2.8 h | 2.5k |
| Jul 21, 2018 | No storm report | 221 | 1% | 13 h | – | 2.5k |
| Aug 21, 2019 | No storm report | 1,308 | 9% | 1.8 h | 11 h | 2.3k |
| Jun 7, 2019 | No storm report | 663 | 4% | 5.0 h | – | 2.0k |
| May 17, 2020 | No storm report | 1,320 | 9% | 1.5 h | 6.5 h | 2.0k |
| Jul 3, 2018 | No storm report | 472 | 3% | 6.5 h | – | 1.9k |
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 Macon from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 52%
- Tornadoes 32%
- Thunderstorms 11%
- Tropical storm 4.1%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Macon
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 |
| City of Tuskegee | AL | – | – | – | 13.4 | 62k |
| Dixie Electric Coop | Cooperative | 258 | 118 | 2.04 | 15.4 | 22k |
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
- Tallapoosa 14 h
- Elmore 11 h
- Bullock 6.0 h
- Montgomery 3.9 h
- Russell 3.8 h
- Lee 3.3 h
- Macon (this county) 3.1 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 15,032 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 →