When will the power be back in Shelby County, AL?
See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Alabama
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customers reported out in Shelby County, AL
Reported by the utility's own live outage data — this county isn't included in the slower nationwide county tally.
County-wide restoration outlook: no clear recovery trend yet — past outages here of 200+ customers in the same kind of weather ran ~5 hr start to finish (12 on record)
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
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Updated 1:38 AM CDT.
48 county-wide trend of customers without power · last 9 hr · tap or hover a point to see its number
Communities with reported outages — from the utilities that publish city-by-city detail for this county
Calera — <5 customers reported out
Shelby — <5 customers reported out
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Who serves Shelby County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Alabama Power, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Coosa Valley Electric Cooperative also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Shelby County, AL
Last significant outage: Oct 6, 2026 — peaked at 277 customers, restored in ~1.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 30 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 6.1 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 22, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Shelby County, AL
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
951 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 8 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~5.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is longer than the Alabama norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.5 hr.
Largest on record: ~59,216 customers out in October 2020, restored after about 4.9 days. The busiest year on record here was 2019.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025, replayed through the same event rules as our tracking archive above with two differences: outages shorter than
half an hour count here, and a reading above twice the county's customers or households is capped. They cover a far longer period
than we have been tracking — a different set of outages, so the two typical times differ. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Cities with their own pages in Shelby County
Communities in Shelby County include Alabaster, Pelham, Helena, Calera, Chelsea, Montevallo, Columbiana and Indian Springs Village. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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