Power outages in Alabama
Live outage status by county · updated ~every 15 minutes
3,348
customers reported out statewide · 24 counties reporting · 8 with 50+ customers out
Updated 4:52 PM CDT.
Significant outages (50+ customers, largest first)
Jefferson — 1,026 reported out · still growing right now — past outages here of 500–2,000 customers in the same kind of weather ran ~1 day start to finish (9 on record)
Mobile — 818 reported out · grew sharply just now — past outages here like this ran ~9 hr start to finish (5 on record)
Shelby — 654 reported out · grew sharply just now — too soon to tell the trend
Tuscaloosa — 338 reported out · grew sharply just now — past outages here of 500–2,000 customers in the same kind of weather ran ~4 hr start to finish (5 on record)
Bibb — 142 reported out · grew sharply just now — too soon to tell the trend
Walker — 72 reported out · ~32 min to restore at the current pace (roughly 89 customers an hour)
Clarke — 70 reported out · no reliable recovery trend yet
Chilton — 62 reported out · no reliable recovery trend yet
“Reporting” means at least one customer reported out in county-level data (the federal nationwide tally combined with utilities' own live data where we track them); “significant” means 50+ customers out — the floor for the active list above.
All Alabama counties (67)
- Autauga
- Baldwin
- Barbour
- Bibb
- Blount
- Bullock
- Butler
- Calhoun
- Chambers
- Cherokee
- Chilton
- Choctaw
- Clarke
- Clay
- Cleburne
- Coffee
- Colbert
- Conecuh
- Coosa
- Covington
- Crenshaw
- Cullman
- Dale
- Dallas
- DeKalb
- Elmore
- Escambia
- Etowah
- Fayette
- Franklin
- Geneva
- Greene
- Hale
- Henry
- Houston
- Jackson
- Jefferson
- Lamar
- Lauderdale
- Lawrence
- Lee
- Limestone
- Lowndes
- Macon
- Madison
- Marengo
- Marion
- Marshall
- Mobile
- Monroe
- Montgomery
- Morgan
- Perry
- Pickens
- Pike
- Randolph
- Russell
- Shelby
- St. Clair
- Sumter
- Talladega
- Tallapoosa
- Tuscaloosa
- Walker
- Washington
- Wilcox
- Winston
Utility coverage in Alabama
Tracked utilities with dedicated pages
Also tracked live — opens in the app
Huntsville Utilities (AL) · Riviera Utilities (AL) · Central Alabama Electric Cooperative (AL) · Singing River Electric (MS) · Wiregrass Electric Cooperative (AL) · Dixie EC (AL) · South Alabama Electric Cooperative (AL) · Tombigbee Electric Cooperative (AL) · Diverse Power (GA)
This is our tracking coverage, not a complete registry of every utility serving Alabama.
Historical outage patterns in Alabama
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy)
contain 28,610 county-level outage records (200+ customers at peak) in Alabama between 2014 and 2025 for the 66 counties the federal record covers — 214 of them major events of 10,000+ customers.
Half were restored within about 3.5 hr, and county-level outages here have been most common in summer (33% of all records). The busiest year on record was 2025.
Largest single-county outage on record: ~143,114 customers out in Mobile County in September 2020, restored after about 4.6 days.
Months that hit the widest area at once — these rank among the three largest outages ever recorded in the most counties: October 2020 (26 counties), April 2020 (11 counties) and June 2023 (10 counties).
Where restoration has historically taken longest: Jefferson County (~12 hr typical), Mobile County (~5.8 hr typical) and Tuscaloosa County (~5.5 hr typical) — against ~3.5 hr statewide.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), 2014–2025. These are federal
historical records, not outages tracked live by this site. Statewide figures aggregate the same per-county records shown on each county page below;
the statewide restoration figure is the typical (middle) value across the per-county typical times, weighted by how many records each county has. A county appears in a “widest area” month when that month
produced one of its three largest recorded outages.
Common questions
Which utilities serve Alabama?
Electric utilities we track in Alabama include Alabama Power, Huntsville Utilities, Riviera Utilities, Central Alabama Electric Cooperative and others. Each restores its own service area — report an outage to your serving utility so crews can be dispatched.