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

Power outage history

Pickens County Alabama

15hours

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

15th most of 60 in Alabama 2.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Apr 18, 2019 57% of customers out · 90% back in 45 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 15h / yr State average 7.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 6.8 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 2.1days Apr 18, 2019, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 49% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 33 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 8,654 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 Pickens'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

2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 33 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Pickens, hours without power per customer

PickensUS median countyAlabama average
0 10 20 30 40 ’17 7.4 ’18 19 ’19 16 ’20 5.9 ’21 8.4 ’22 11 ’23 15 ’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
Apr 18, 2019 Thunderstorms 4,907 57% 2.1 d 45 h 97k
Apr 12, 2020 Tornadoes 4,445 51% 2.1 d 40 h 62k
Jun 7, 2025 No storm report 2,507 29% 30 h 25 h 38k
Sep 12, 2024 Hurricane Francine 4,608 53% 31 h 16 h 35k
May 7, 2025 Windstorm 5,644 65% 18 h 14 h 34k
Mar 3, 2023 No storm report 2,496 29% 32 h 28 h 31k
Feb 15, 2025 Thunderstorms 2,959 34% 28 h 17 h 29k
May 25, 2025 Thunderstorms 2,488 29% 21 h 15 h 28k
May 18, 2025 Thunderstorms 2,763 32% 21 h 17 h 27k
Jan 11, 2020 Tornadoes 1,672 19% 30 h 25 h 18k
Jul 3, 2020 No storm report 1,453 17% 20 h 20 h 14k
Jun 16, 2025 Thunderstorms 2,167 25% 15 h 9.2 h 14k

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 +8h 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 Pickens from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 51%
  • Thunderstorms 26%
  • Tornadoes 12%
  • Tropical storm 5.1%
  • Windstorm 4.0%
  • Winter storm 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Pickens

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
Black Warrior Elec Member Corp Cooperative – – – 15.1 20k

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 8,654 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 →