When will the power be back in Hoover, AL?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Hoover is a city of about 93,013 residents in Jefferson County.
None of the utility outage maps we follow has yet listed an outage for Hoover by name, so this page reports the Jefferson County county-wide view, which covers Hoover. If a serving utility does name Hoover during an outage, the city's own numbers appear here automatically.
Around Hoover: the closest other places we track are Pelham, about 5 miles to the southeast; Homewood, about 6 miles to the north; Vestavia Hills, about 6 miles to the northeast; and Helena, about 8 miles to the southwest. Also nearby: Mountain Brook (9 mi NE), Bessemer (9 mi W), Birmingham (11 mi N), Alabaster (11 mi S), Chelsea (11 mi SE), Hueytown (13 mi W), Irondale (14 mi NE) and Calera (18 mi S).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Center Point (20 mi); northeast toward Leeds (18 mi); east toward Pell City (34 mi); southeast toward Sylacauga (35 mi); south toward Prattville (67 mi); southwest toward Meridian, MS (129 mi); west toward Tuscaloosa (43 mi); and northwest toward Jasper (42 mi).
Who serves Hoover?
We track live outage data from Alabama Power in Jefferson County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. City of Bessemer Utilities and City of Tarrant also serve parts of Jefferson County — we don't yet read their own live outage maps.
County context: across all of Jefferson County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 12 hr. The full record for Jefferson County
