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2024 Blount County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Blount County, AL went without power for an average of 6.5 hours, a total of 177K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 66 Alabama counties and 1330th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Blount County, 2024
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 17, 2024 09:15 | December 17, 2024 20:30 | 11h 15m | 7,391 | 3,184 |
| 2 | July 5, 2024 03:00 | July 6, 2024 04:00 | 1d 1h | 5,291 | 2,009 |
| 3 | September 12, 2024 08:45 | September 15, 2024 23:00 | 3d 14h | 2,700 | 30K |
| 4 | January 8, 2024 23:30 | January 10, 2024 10:00 | 1d 10h | 1,652 | 16K |
| 5 | January 16, 2024 11:15 | January 16, 2024 18:15 | 7h | 1,442 | 553 |
| 6 | December 15, 2024 14:15 | December 16, 2024 05:30 | 15h 15m | 1,263 | 2,474 |
| 7 | April 4, 2024 18:45 | April 4, 2024 19:00 | 15m | 1,259 | 315 |
| 8 | July 8, 2024 19:30 | July 9, 2024 07:30 | 12h | 1,139 | 4,165 |
| 9 | June 22, 2024 20:30 | June 23, 2024 05:15 | 8h 45m | 1,055 | 606 |
| 10 | December 29, 2024 04:30 | December 29, 2024 23:15 | 18h 45m | 1,044 | 7,137 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 111 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 2024, 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/alabama/blount-county