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2022 Tuscaloosa County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Tuscaloosa County, AL went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 399K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.0 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1897th 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 Tuscaloosa 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 | May 2, 2022 10:45 | May 3, 2022 20:45 | 1d 10h | 6,406 | 3,243 |
| 2 | July 19, 2022 09:30 | July 20, 2022 07:00 | 21h 30m | 6,135 | 16K |
| 3 | October 13, 2022 06:15 | October 14, 2022 00:30 | 18h 15m | 5,648 | 6,449 |
| 4 | July 9, 2022 07:30 | July 12, 2022 02:45 | 2d 19h | 4,529 | 24K |
| 5 | May 24, 2022 07:30 | May 27, 2022 07:15 | 2d 23h | 4,082 | 13K |
| 6 | November 16, 2022 09:00 | November 18, 2022 14:00 | 2d 5h | 3,382 | 2,222 |
| 7 | March 30, 2022 11:45 | April 1, 2022 19:15 | 2d 7h | 3,091 | 42K |
| 8 | August 1, 2022 11:45 | August 2, 2022 01:15 | 13h 30m | 2,953 | 819 |
| 9 | February 17, 2022 09:15 | February 19, 2022 02:00 | 1d 16h | 2,674 | 12K |
| 10 | April 28, 2022 12:45 | April 28, 2022 23:15 | 10h 30m | 2,190 | 721 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 207 reached 100+ customers, 36 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 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2022; 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, 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/tuscaloosa-county