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2019 Jefferson County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Jefferson County, AL went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (Alabama average 3.2 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 66 Alabama counties and 1440th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Jefferson County, 2019
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 16, 2019 10:15 | July 5, 2019 12:00 | 19d 1h | 19,470 | 208K |
| 2 | April 16, 2019 09:15 | April 22, 2019 06:15 | 5d 21h | 11,772 | 69K |
| 3 | August 19, 2019 01:00 | September 1, 2019 02:45 | 13d 1h | 10,053 | 105K |
| 4 | July 7, 2019 11:45 | July 8, 2019 02:15 | 14h 30m | 8,318 | 25K |
| 5 | November 30, 2019 12:15 | December 4, 2019 09:00 | 3d 20h | 5,662 | 58K |
| 6 | October 20, 2019 11:00 | November 2, 2019 11:15 | 13d | 5,143 | 87K |
| 7 | September 1, 2019 03:30 | September 7, 2019 20:15 | 6d 16h | 4,681 | 18K |
| 8 | December 29, 2019 05:00 | December 31, 2019 00:15 | 1d 19h | 4,186 | 18K |
| 9 | July 8, 2019 04:00 | July 14, 2019 15:45 | 6d 11h | 4,077 | 25K |
| 10 | November 11, 2019 11:30 | November 14, 2019 08:15 | 2d 20h | 3,929 | 25K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 114 reached 100+ customers, 44 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Jefferson County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Bessemer Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Tarrant | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 81% of Alabama's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 372,757 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. Jefferson County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jefferson County, AL annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/alabama/jefferson-county