Hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean Basin in 2025 starts on Sunday, June 1 and ends on November 30. In May, the National Weather Service (NOAA) issued its forecast.
Rainfall is not predicted by this forecast; only hurricane activity is. An above-normal hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean Basin was predicted to occur 60% of the time.
Alabama occasionally finds itself on the edge of a hurricane’s course. Hurricane Helene, which struck in September 2024, affected 27,000 Alabama Power customers.
Therefore, Alabama Power is assuring state citizens that the power company is ready to address the demands of its customers in the wake of the revelation of an anticipated above-normal hurricane season.
“We are prepped and ready for hurricane season,” Scott Moore, senior vice president of Power Delivery stated. “That’s part of our commitment to providing dependable service for customers. We want to make sure our customers are prepared as well, starting with awareness that the threat is a little higher than normal this year.”
In Alabama, the increased season prediction raises the possibility of property and human casualties. According to Alabama Power, becoming ready to respond to storm-related outages is a top priority.
In order to reduce the number of households and businesses impacted, Alabama Power has implemented outage prevention technology, which isolates trouble spots and reroutes electricity to avoid wider outages.
More than two million outages have been avoided since Alabama Power started using their preventative system.
When tornadoes and thunderstorms struck the state in February 2025, the technology was able to prevent more significant disruptions.
More than 120,000 customers were impacted by this extreme weather, but over 30,000 were spared extended disruptions, according to Alabama Power.
In addition to the outage avoidance system, Alabama Power uses vegetation management to get ready for hurricanes and other severe weather events all year long.
“Fallen trees are the leading cause of outages, so controlling vegetation to keep trees and underbrush away from power lines is vital,” An Alabama Power spokesperson stated.
Being one of the most forested states in the nation, nearly 200-thousand acres of forests cover a large portion of Alabama Power’s rights of way for transmission (more than 11,000 miles) and distribution (more than 51,000 miles), necessitating ongoing maintenance and monitoring.
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The planning and continuous work don’t end there. Additionally, Alabama Power strives to add more crew members.
“To meet customers’ needs during outages, Alabama Power supplements its efforts through relationships with contractors and other external resource providers. They are called in as needed to speed up the process of restoring power to every customer,” according to the Alabama Power spokesperson.
Alabama Power also gives this help back to others.
Before, during, and after severe weather occurrences, Alabama Power offers its customers information and advice. Customers of Alabama Power can report an outage at their location, sign up for outage alerts, and view an updated map of the impacted areas by going here.
Incoming weather is tracked by the Alabama Power Storm Center, which also gets teams ready to react as fast and safely as possible.
