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2021 Blount County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Blount County, AL went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 144K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.6 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1277th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Blount County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 13, 2021 17:15 | September 13, 2021 23:45 | 6h 30m | 6,219 | 2,938 |
| 2 | May 7, 2021 00:45 | May 7, 2021 18:15 | 17h 30m | 6,110 | 6,236 |
| 3 | November 16, 2021 19:30 | November 16, 2021 23:30 | 4h | 3,003 | 766 |
| 4 | March 25, 2021 08:30 | March 26, 2021 21:45 | 1d 13h | 1,680 | 10K |
| 5 | January 25, 2021 21:45 | January 26, 2021 19:45 | 22h | 1,502 | 2,937 |
| 6 | July 6, 2021 15:15 | July 6, 2021 19:30 | 4h 15m | 1,252 | 950 |
| 7 | December 30, 2021 02:15 | December 31, 2021 00:15 | 22h | 1,138 | 6,005 |
| 8 | July 26, 2021 14:30 | July 26, 2021 22:00 | 7h 30m | 943 | 1,114 |
| 9 | January 15, 2021 12:30 | January 16, 2021 02:30 | 14h | 941 | 2,522 |
| 10 | April 24, 2021 19:15 | April 25, 2021 09:00 | 13h 45m | 901 | 5,773 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 84 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Blount County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/alabama/blount-county