When will the power be back in Helena, AL?

Helena is a city of about 22,200 residents in Shelby County.

Alabama Power has reported outages for Helena by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-09-18) — so when Helena is affected, this page can show the city's own customers-out count and restoration time rather than only the county-wide total.

ZIP codes in Helena:

• 35080

Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.

Around Helena: the closest other places we track are Alabaster, about 6 miles to the southeast; Pelham, about 8 miles to the east; Bessemer, about 8 miles to the northwest; and Calera, about 14 miles to the southeast. Also nearby: Chelsea (15 mi E), Birmingham (18 mi N), Leeds (26 mi NE), Gardendale (27 mi N), Trussville (30 mi NE), Moody (31 mi NE), Sylacauga (37 mi E) and Tuscaloosa (37 mi W).

Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Huntsville (99 mi); northeast toward Pell City (41 mi); east toward Talladega (47 mi); southeast toward Alexander City (61 mi); south toward Selma (61 mi); southwest toward Meridian, MS (122 mi); west toward Northport (41 mi); and northwest toward Jasper (45 mi).

Helena's last tracked outage began Oct 10, peaked at 47 customers out, and was restored in 18 hours. Across the 6 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 2 hours.

• Oct 10 — 47 customers out, restored in 18 hours
• Oct 10 — 103 customers out, restored in 15 hours
• Oct 3 — 127 customers out, restored in 2 hours
• Oct 1 — 55 customers out, restored in 30 minutes