Power Outages in Pickens County, AL
No live outage feed is available for Pickens County, AL yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 33.9 hours.
Pickens County, AL is served by local tracked utilities.
Pickens County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
- Heat AdvisoryMODERATE
Pickens County has been under 58 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Heat Advisory on September 2, 2026.
- Heat Advisory ×38
- Special Weather Statement ×14
- Extreme Heat Warning ×3
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning ×2
- Severe Thunderstorm Watch ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Pickens County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Pickens County went about 33.9 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 10,658 customers.
Worst year here was 2025 (peak 10,658 customers out) · decade average 13.2 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 120 | 925 | 0.3 |
| 2018 | 728 | 2,806 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 804 | 4,907 | 19.3 |
| 2020 | 786 | 4,445 | 16.5 |
| 2021 | 708 | 1,691 | 5.9 |
| 2022 | 750 | 3,075 | 8.5 |
| 2023 | 714 | 3,655 | 11.3 |
| 2024 | 744 | 4,608 | 15.5 |
| 2025 | 707 | 10,658 | 33.9 |
Relatively Moderate tornadoes exposure · 13.2 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability very high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Pickens County: FAQ
- How often does Pickens County, AL lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Pickens County, AL logged 707 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 33.9 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Pickens County, AL?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 10,658 customers without power, beginning March 15, 2025 and lasting about 1d 6h.
- Is there a power outage in Pickens County, AL right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Pickens County, AL. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Pickens County.
35442, 35447, 35461, 35466, 35481
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/01107 and /api/v1/counties/01107/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Alabama customers).