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2018 Blount County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Blount County, AL went without power for an average of 7.2 hours, a total of 194K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 65 Alabama counties and 756th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Blount County, 2018
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, 2018 21:30 | December 10, 2018 14:15 | 1d 16h | 6,359 | 56K |
| 2 | April 4, 2018 04:15 | April 4, 2018 20:15 | 16h | 2,862 | 11K |
| 3 | June 27, 2018 17:30 | June 30, 2018 09:45 | 2d 16h | 2,788 | 23K |
| 4 | September 24, 2018 19:30 | September 24, 2018 21:15 | 1h 45m | 1,268 | 1,443 |
| 5 | January 6, 2018 02:00 | January 6, 2018 05:15 | 3h 15m | 995 | 1,640 |
| 6 | January 16, 2018 15:15 | January 16, 2018 19:45 | 4h 30m | 971 | 1,461 |
| 7 | June 23, 2018 12:15 | June 24, 2018 08:15 | 20h | 925 | 3,496 |
| 8 | October 21, 2018 08:30 | October 21, 2018 13:30 | 5h | 839 | 1,981 |
| 9 | September 9, 2018 18:00 | September 10, 2018 08:15 | 14h 15m | 771 | 3,954 |
| 10 | January 12, 2018 11:00 | January 13, 2018 02:30 | 15h 30m | 764 | 1,053 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 104 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Blount County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 79% of Alabama's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 27,074 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. Blount County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blount County, AL annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/alabama/blount-county