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2020 Tuscaloosa County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Tuscaloosa County, AL went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 642K customer-hours (Alabama average 22.1 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1378th 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 Tuscaloosa 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 12:30 | April 16, 2020 03:15 | 3d 14h | 13,999 | 234K |
| 2 | August 11, 2020 21:15 | August 13, 2020 10:45 | 1d 13h | 9,093 | 15K |
| 3 | January 11, 2020 03:00 | January 13, 2020 10:45 | 2d 7h | 9,034 | 69K |
| 4 | May 17, 2020 20:00 | May 17, 2020 23:15 | 3h 15m | 6,134 | 9,247 |
| 5 | December 13, 2020 16:45 | December 15, 2020 00:15 | 1d 7h | 4,631 | 13K |
| 6 | May 22, 2020 13:00 | May 24, 2020 18:00 | 2d 5h | 3,493 | 20K |
| 7 | July 7, 2020 06:45 | July 8, 2020 23:45 | 1d 17h | 3,275 | 17K |
| 8 | March 31, 2020 12:15 | April 1, 2020 00:45 | 12h 30m | 3,164 | 10K |
| 9 | April 23, 2020 01:15 | April 26, 2020 09:00 | 3d 7h | 3,046 | 20K |
| 10 | June 22, 2020 10:30 | June 27, 2020 01:30 | 4d 15h | 2,825 | 13K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 162 reached 100+ customers, 27 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 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2020; 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, 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/tuscaloosa-county