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2020 Blount County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Blount County, AL went without power for an average of 20.8 hours, a total of 562K customer-hours (Alabama average 22.1 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 416th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Blount County, 2020
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 12, 2020 17:15 | April 16, 2020 03:30 | 3d 10h | 13,470 | 395K |
| 2 | July 23, 2020 01:00 | July 23, 2020 06:15 | 5h 15m | 5,531 | 5,595 |
| 3 | January 11, 2020 05:30 | January 14, 2020 00:45 | 2d 19h | 2,813 | 29K |
| 4 | May 17, 2020 19:15 | May 17, 2020 21:45 | 2h 30m | 2,813 | 4,266 |
| 5 | April 17, 2020 13:45 | April 19, 2020 04:45 | 1d 15h | 1,823 | 1,461 |
| 6 | July 12, 2020 17:15 | July 13, 2020 11:30 | 18h 15m | 1,800 | 13K |
| 7 | May 24, 2020 00:45 | May 24, 2020 08:45 | 8h | 1,445 | 3,412 |
| 8 | September 16, 2020 21:00 | September 16, 2020 21:15 | 15m | 1,414 | 354 |
| 9 | February 6, 2020 06:00 | February 7, 2020 00:45 | 18h 45m | 1,108 | 6,251 |
| 10 | August 30, 2020 19:00 | August 30, 2020 23:45 | 4h 45m | 1,089 | 837 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 97 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Blount County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 81% of Alabama's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/alabama/blount-county