Power Outages in Blount County, AL
No live outage feed is available for Blount County, AL yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 11.5 hours.
Blount County, AL is served by local tracked utilities.
Blount 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
Blount County has been under 63 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Heat Advisory on September 3, 2026.
- Heat Advisory ×25
- Special Weather Statement ×16
- Flood Watch ×8
- Flood Advisory ×4
- Flash Flood Warning ×3
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning ×3
Hardest-hit cities in Blount County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Blount County went about 11.5 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 13,470 customers.
Worst year here was 2020 (peak 13,470 customers out) · decade average 8.5 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 183 | 1,609 | 0.4 |
| 2018 | 856 | 6,359 | 7.2 |
| 2019 | 958 | 2,610 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 941 | 13,470 | 20.8 |
| 2021 | 877 | 6,219 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 938 | 4,580 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 914 | 4,580 | 9.8 |
| 2024 | 947 | 7,391 | 6.5 |
| 2025 | 844 | 5,503 | 11.5 |
Relatively High tornadoes exposure · 8.5 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability relatively high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Blount County: FAQ
- How often does Blount County, AL lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Blount County, AL logged 844 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 11.5 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Blount County, AL?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 13,470 customers without power, beginning April 12, 2020 and lasting about 3d 10h.
- Is there a power outage in Blount County, AL right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Blount County, AL. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Blount County.
35013, 35031, 35049, 35079, 35097, 35121, 35133, 35172
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/01009 and /api/v1/counties/01009/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Alabama customers).