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2017 Tuscaloosa County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Tuscaloosa County, AL went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 39K customer-hours (Alabama average 1.7 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2404th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Tuscaloosa County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 8, 2017 00:15 | December 10, 2017 01:00 | 2d | 926 | 4,370 |
| 2 | December 6, 2017 14:00 | December 7, 2017 12:00 | 22h | 597 | 4,279 |
| 3 | December 16, 2017 12:30 | December 16, 2017 21:00 | 8h 30m | 582 | 1,184 |
| 4 | October 25, 2017 07:45 | October 26, 2017 02:15 | 18h 30m | 566 | 4,586 |
| 5 | November 28, 2017 12:30 | November 28, 2017 22:45 | 10h 15m | 551 | 1,365 |
| 6 | December 17, 2017 11:45 | December 17, 2017 16:30 | 4h 45m | 543 | 686 |
| 7 | November 29, 2017 13:30 | November 30, 2017 02:15 | 12h 45m | 538 | 3,479 |
| 8 | October 17, 2017 11:15 | October 18, 2017 00:15 | 13h | 505 | 1,065 |
| 9 | November 25, 2017 20:30 | November 26, 2017 02:00 | 5h 30m | 493 | 294 |
| 10 | December 13, 2017 11:30 | December 14, 2017 00:15 | 12h 45m | 460 | 994 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 33 reached 100+ customers, 0 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Tuscaloosa County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Black Warrior Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Alabama's customers in 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 126,125 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Tuscaloosa County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Tuscaloosa County, AL annual power outage report, 2017, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2017/alabama/tuscaloosa-county