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2019 Tuscaloosa County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Tuscaloosa County, AL went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 410K customer-hours (Alabama average 3.2 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 66 Alabama counties and 1551st 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 Tuscaloosa 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 | April 18, 2019 11:45 | April 21, 2019 04:45 | 2d 17h | 8,290 | 65K |
| 2 | June 20, 2019 07:15 | June 21, 2019 01:30 | 18h 15m | 4,505 | 24K |
| 3 | April 14, 2019 03:45 | April 15, 2019 12:00 | 1d 8h | 3,259 | 17K |
| 4 | October 22, 2019 04:30 | October 23, 2019 02:15 | 21h 45m | 2,418 | 5,470 |
| 5 | February 23, 2019 05:00 | February 24, 2019 22:15 | 1d 17h | 2,411 | 7,807 |
| 6 | August 25, 2019 12:15 | August 29, 2019 22:15 | 4d 10h | 2,355 | 20K |
| 7 | May 9, 2019 11:15 | May 10, 2019 04:45 | 17h 30m | 2,311 | 3,188 |
| 8 | October 1, 2019 00:15 | October 1, 2019 07:45 | 7h 30m | 2,112 | 645 |
| 9 | July 14, 2019 11:00 | July 14, 2019 19:45 | 8h 45m | 2,016 | 3,050 |
| 10 | October 25, 2019 10:00 | October 27, 2019 04:45 | 1d 18h | 1,633 | 17K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 186 reached 100+ customers, 27 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 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 81% of Alabama's customers in 2019; 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, 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/tuscaloosa-county