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2018 Tuscaloosa County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Tuscaloosa County, AL went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 530K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1204th 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 Tuscaloosa 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 | June 26, 2018 10:15 | July 1, 2018 05:15 | 4d 19h | 17,897 | 171K |
| 2 | July 6, 2018 12:15 | July 8, 2018 11:15 | 1d 23h | 7,060 | 28K |
| 3 | May 25, 2018 11:45 | May 26, 2018 06:00 | 18h 15m | 4,850 | 9,968 |
| 4 | August 8, 2018 10:30 | August 10, 2018 01:00 | 1d 14h | 3,544 | 3,533 |
| 5 | December 8, 2018 12:30 | December 11, 2018 05:15 | 2d 16h | 3,371 | 40K |
| 6 | July 14, 2018 16:15 | July 17, 2018 07:00 | 2d 14h | 2,849 | 12K |
| 7 | June 10, 2018 22:15 | June 12, 2018 08:45 | 1d 10h | 2,704 | 9,212 |
| 8 | July 25, 2018 11:30 | July 26, 2018 09:00 | 21h 30m | 2,513 | 1,320 |
| 9 | August 7, 2018 12:45 | August 8, 2018 07:45 | 19h | 2,450 | 6,426 |
| 10 | May 2, 2018 07:45 | May 3, 2018 03:00 | 19h 15m | 2,337 | 4,459 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 190 reached 100+ customers, 32 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 79% of Alabama's customers in 2018; 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, 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/tuscaloosa-county