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

Power outage history

Walker County Alabama

11hours

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

23rd most of 60 in Alabama 1.6× the national median

Worst outage on record Apr 12, 2020 32% of customers out · 90% back in 2.1 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 11h / yr State average 7.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 1.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 13hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.4days Apr 12, 2020, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 63% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 19 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 32,987 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 Walker'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 19 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Walker, hours without power per customer

WalkerUS median countyAlabama average
0 5 10 15 20 25 0.6 ’17 6.2 ’18 9.6 ’19 14 ’20 7.5 ’21 8.9 ’22 12 ’23 7.2 ’24 19 ’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 12, 2020 Tornadoes 10,667 32% 2.4 d 2.1 d 246k
Jun 7, 2025 Thunderstorms 9,266 28% 38 h 26 h 187k
Mar 3, 2023 Thunderstorms 10,541 32% 48 h 34 h 186k
Apr 18, 2019 Thunderstorms 6,788 21% 25 h 21 h 90k
Feb 16, 2025 Thunderstorms 8,205 25% 37 h 22 h 82k
Nov 30, 2022 Thunderstorms 4,903 15% 16 h 13 h 45k
Mar 30, 2022 No storm report 5,008 15% 24 h 15 h 36k
Mar 4, 2025 Thunderstorms 2,784 8% 25 h 20 h 35k
Jun 28, 2018 Thunderstorms 4,078 12% 13 h 11 h 25k
Mar 15, 2025 Tornadoes 2,683 8% 17 h 16 h 24k
Jun 20, 2019 No storm report 3,003 9% 14 h 13 h 22k
Sep 12, 2024 Hurricane Francine 2,487 8% 16 h 12 h 21k

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 +16h

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

  • Thunderstorms 46%
  • No storm on record 37%
  • Tornadoes 14%
  • Tropical storm 2.1%
  • Winter storm 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Walker

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

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 32,987 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 →