The other ledger for Alabama: a rural hospital system the state itself grades at ~60% at risk of closure, the only dam fleet in America with no state safety programme and 83% of its high-hazard dams never inspected, 919,160 people food insecure — and, honestly reported, bridges at just 3% poor. Every figure is sourced, dated, and labeled — counted, modeled, or assessed.
How to read this page: the class chip on every measure is the honesty label. Counted = an inspection or enumeration record. Modeled = a study's projection or risk score — printed with the modeler's name. Assessed = a structured survey of required investment — needs as documented, not measurements of decay. Figures keep the form their source gave them; years are printed on every measure.
Click any category to expand it — every measure with its figure, what it means in plain language, and its source.
Hospitals. The ≈60% / 48% figures are the state's own, from Alabama's Rural Health Transformation Program proposal (Aug 2025) as reported in Oct 2026 — printed as the primary record because a state grading itself carries weight an outside model does not. A later assessment (Jul 2026) put immediate risk at 37% of remaining rural hospitals; the difference is disclosed on the measure, not hidden. Closure counts use the Sheps Center's standard since-2005 window.
Dams — an ignorance problem, printed as one. Alabama is the only state without a dam safety programme (ASCE 'Incomplete' in 2015 and 2022). AP's 2019 NID analysis found only ~0.4% of high-hazard dams assessed poor — because 83.3% had never been inspected. This page prints the uninspected share, not a dressed-up poor-condition count.
Traffic. No INRIX Scorecard figure for an Alabama metro was retrieved, so traffic runs on Texas A&M's Urban Mobility Report (Huntsville, 2024) and ALDOT's own TSMO plan (Birmingham, TTI 2015 — dated, and labelled dated). No statewide congestion total is published for Alabama, and none is printed.
Food. The USDA limited-access count is 2019 Atlas vintage — the last statewide tabulation retrieved — paired with Feeding America's current modelled food-insecurity rate (17.8%, 2024). The two measures are different things and are never merged.
Power. Figures are Alabama Power's system (most of the state); TVA-served north Alabama has no separate published load forecast and none is claimed. The ~3 GW figure is contracted demand from the utility parent's earnings call, flagged as news-reported, and printed next to the IRP baseline it overtook.
Broadband. ADECA's 101,090-location count is the state's final BEAD proposal (Sep 2025) — the pre-build baseline. About a quarter of those locations are planned for satellite rather than wired service; the plan's ~$800M saving against the $1.401B allocation is disclosed on the measures.