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2023 Tuscaloosa County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Tuscaloosa County, AL went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 437K customer-hours (Alabama average 6.3 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1802nd 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 Tuscaloosa 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 | July 18, 2023 13:15 | July 23, 2023 02:00 | 4d 12h | 7,404 | 72K |
| 2 | December 9, 2023 22:45 | December 11, 2023 09:00 | 1d 10h | 6,514 | 26K |
| 3 | March 2, 2023 02:00 | March 6, 2023 01:30 | 3d 23h | 5,790 | 39K |
| 4 | March 10, 2023 07:30 | March 10, 2023 20:45 | 13h 15m | 3,234 | 7,734 |
| 5 | August 6, 2023 18:15 | August 9, 2023 02:45 | 2d 8h | 2,899 | 16K |
| 6 | July 1, 2023 18:15 | July 3, 2023 21:30 | 2d 3h | 2,859 | 8,675 |
| 7 | February 8, 2023 07:30 | February 9, 2023 02:45 | 19h 15m | 2,189 | 2,973 |
| 8 | May 20, 2023 03:00 | May 20, 2023 03:15 | 15m | 2,152 | 538 |
| 9 | June 18, 2023 13:15 | June 21, 2023 00:00 | 2d 10h | 2,077 | 4,379 |
| 10 | July 27, 2023 06:00 | July 28, 2023 01:30 | 19h 30m | 2,053 | 1,158 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 179 reached 100+ customers, 30 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 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 n/a of Alabama's customers in 2023; 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, 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/tuscaloosa-county