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2023 Blount County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Blount County, AL went without power for an average of 9.8 hours, a total of 266K customer-hours (Alabama average 6.3 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 65 Alabama counties and 857th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Blount County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 3, 2023 10:30 | March 5, 2023 02:30 | 1d 16h | 4,580 | 59K |
| 2 | August 6, 2023 14:15 | August 8, 2023 09:15 | 1d 19h | 4,275 | 22K |
| 3 | September 20, 2023 19:45 | September 21, 2023 01:00 | 5h 15m | 3,696 | 956 |
| 4 | June 14, 2023 14:30 | June 16, 2023 08:00 | 1d 17h | 2,862 | 24K |
| 5 | August 9, 2023 18:30 | August 11, 2023 04:30 | 1d 10h | 2,628 | 16K |
| 6 | August 11, 2023 07:45 | August 12, 2023 00:30 | 16h 45m | 2,370 | 12K |
| 7 | July 18, 2023 23:15 | July 19, 2023 22:00 | 22h 45m | 1,539 | 10K |
| 8 | May 10, 2023 16:15 | May 10, 2023 20:00 | 3h 45m | 1,535 | 486 |
| 9 | August 3, 2023 19:00 | August 4, 2023 06:15 | 11h 15m | 1,495 | 3,587 |
| 10 | June 19, 2023 12:45 | June 20, 2023 01:45 | 13h | 1,445 | 761 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 108 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 2023, 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 n/a of Alabama's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/alabama/blount-county