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2022 Jefferson County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Jefferson County, AL went without power for an average of 5.6 hours, a total of 2.1M customer-hours (Alabama average 4.0 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1291st of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Jefferson County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 21, 2022 10:00 | August 25, 2022 09:45 | 34d 23h | 32,424 | 412K |
| 2 | November 29, 2022 12:45 | December 10, 2022 02:15 | 10d 13h | 19,083 | 158K |
| 3 | March 29, 2022 08:30 | April 7, 2022 08:15 | 8d 23h | 17,055 | 255K |
| 4 | December 19, 2022 12:15 | January 1, 2023 00:00 | 12d 11h | 15,282 | 59K |
| 5 | February 13, 2022 07:15 | February 21, 2022 03:45 | 7d 20h | 14,930 | 126K |
| 6 | July 3, 2022 09:30 | July 14, 2022 10:45 | 11d 1h | 14,531 | 146K |
| 7 | June 2, 2022 07:45 | June 27, 2022 07:45 | 25d | 11,380 | 296K |
| 8 | October 28, 2022 12:30 | November 3, 2022 09:15 | 5d 20h | 11,364 | 18K |
| 9 | May 6, 2022 09:30 | May 14, 2022 17:45 | 8d 8h | 5,682 | 42K |
| 10 | October 2, 2022 04:30 | October 15, 2022 05:30 | 13d 1h | 4,774 | 29K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 81 reached 100+ customers, 27 reached 1,000+ customers, 8 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 2022, 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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/alabama/jefferson-county