Is the power out in 36502?

Live answer for ZIP 36502 (Atmore 7% of the ZIP; Escambia County), from Alabama Power, updated every 10 minutes.

Right now in 36502

No. The utility reports no outages in 36502 right now.

0.00% of 5,498 customers

A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.

Updated 8 min ago

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Outage map

ZIP 36502Escambia CountyAlabama Power publishes totals only, not outage locations.

Some utilities publish only how many customers are out, not where. Their outages are in the counts but can't be drawn on the map.

Neighboring ZIP codes

ZIP	Area	Out	Customers i A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.	% out i Customers without power divided by all the customers the utility serves in this area.
36503	Atmore	–	–	–
36543	Unincorporated area	0	50	0.00%
36441	Flomaton / Pollard	0	1,042	0.00%
36426	Brewton / East Brewton	0	4,952	0.00%

Outage history in Escambia County, which includes 36502

2014–2025 record

Escambia County averaged 28.3 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for Alabama counties.

In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 33. Half were over within 1.5 hours; the longest lasted 9.5 hours, starting June 25, 2025.

The largest on record began September 15, 2020, with 9,643 customers out at once.

28.3significant outages a year (2023–2025)

At least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.

1.5 hourstypical (median) length

Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.

4.5 dayslongest on record (September 2020)

9,643most customers out at once

Largest events (start)	Peak out	Lasted i How long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power.	Customer-hours i Customers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours.
September 15, 2020	9,643	4.5 days	384,891
June 16, 2023	6,245	31 hours	42,516
October 29, 2020	6,027	1.9 days	122,266
April 23, 2020	3,898	11 hours	20,246
April 24, 2021	3,523	15 hours	16,641

Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).

From EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.

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Food safety

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24 hA half-full freezer holds about 24 hours if kept closed.
48 hA full freezer holds about 48 hours.

Generators, heat and cold

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