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2023 Jefferson County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Jefferson County, AL went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 1.8M customer-hours (Alabama average 6.3 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1511th 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 Jefferson 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 | December 9, 2023 20:45 | December 13, 2023 11:45 | 3d 15h | 25,348 | 370K |
| 2 | February 28, 2023 14:00 | March 16, 2023 04:00 | 15d 14h | 16,785 | 185K |
| 3 | August 16, 2023 08:45 | September 9, 2023 17:15 | 24d 8h | 12,713 | 68K |
| 4 | July 31, 2023 11:45 | August 16, 2023 08:00 | 15d 20h | 12,205 | 284K |
| 5 | November 18, 2023 12:30 | November 25, 2023 01:15 | 6d 12h | 10,071 | 30K |
| 6 | June 11, 2023 13:45 | June 14, 2023 06:15 | 2d 16h | 8,261 | 54K |
| 7 | June 29, 2023 11:30 | July 31, 2023 09:30 | 31d 22h | 5,555 | 182K |
| 8 | January 5, 2023 09:45 | January 14, 2023 08:30 | 8d 22h | 5,359 | 34K |
| 9 | May 15, 2023 11:00 | May 23, 2023 02:15 | 7d 15h | 4,754 | 37K |
| 10 | October 5, 2023 05:45 | October 8, 2023 16:00 | 3d 10h | 4,615 | 18K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 104 reached 100+ customers, 36 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 n/a of Alabama's customers in 2023; 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, 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/jefferson-county