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2024 Jefferson County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Jefferson County, AL went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 1.7M customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 66 Alabama counties and 1709th 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 Jefferson 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 | May 24, 2024 11:00 | June 14, 2024 09:30 | 20d 22h | 17,662 | 265K |
| 2 | September 8, 2024 02:45 | September 21, 2024 06:45 | 13d 4h | 10,724 | 185K |
| 3 | August 29, 2024 12:15 | September 7, 2024 21:30 | 9d 9h | 8,310 | 66K |
| 4 | January 5, 2024 04:30 | January 7, 2024 11:15 | 2d 6h | 7,653 | 57K |
| 5 | May 8, 2024 11:00 | May 12, 2024 08:15 | 3d 21h | 7,127 | 46K |
| 6 | February 3, 2024 12:45 | February 7, 2024 11:00 | 3d 22h | 6,869 | 15K |
| 7 | July 27, 2024 07:15 | August 6, 2024 10:15 | 10d 3h | 6,510 | 92K |
| 8 | April 7, 2024 04:45 | April 14, 2024 11:15 | 7d 6h | 6,277 | 56K |
| 9 | December 26, 2024 13:15 | December 30, 2024 11:30 | 3d 22h | 6,230 | 38K |
| 10 | June 14, 2024 10:30 | July 1, 2024 10:00 | 16d 23h | 6,131 | 107K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 103 reached 100+ customers, 37 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/jefferson-county