Alabama power outages

Live outages across Alabama from Alabama Power, updated every 10 minutes. 23 counties have customers without power right now.

Right now

Normal: scattered outages

Normal: fewer than 0.1% of customers out. Elevated: 0.1% or more. Major outage: 1% or more.

720customers without power

A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.

0.04% of 1,615,186 customersUpdated 2 min ago

We check every utility's outage data every 10 minutes. Each utility updates its own map on its own schedule, usually every 5 to 15 minutes.

Alabama Power720 / 1,615,186

City of Huntsville - (AL)no live feed

This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.

Serves part of the state, per federal utility records

From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.

. Check its own outage map.

Baldwin County El Member Corpno live feed

This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.

Serves part of the state, per federal utility records

From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.

. Check its own outage map.

Singing River Elec Cooperativeno live feed

This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.

Serves part of the state, per federal utility records

From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.

. Check its own outage map.

Outage map

<0.01%0.01%0.1%1%+ outno live feed

Color shows the share of each county's customers without power right now.

Counties with the most outages

60 counties with live data

County	Out	Customers i A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.	% out i Customers without power divided by all the customers the utility serves in this area.
Fayette County	193	10,704	1.80%
Talladega County	172	28,674	0.60%
Shelby County	99	112,606	0.09%
Jefferson County	81	335,595	0.02%
Randolph County	47	14,483	0.32%
Tuscaloosa County	46	114,126	0.04%
Etowah County	26	55,443	0.05%
Mobile County	17	213,718	<0.01%
Russell County	10	22,687	0.04%
Clay County	9	6,498	0.14%
Lee County	8	70,746	0.01%
Bibb County	fewer than 5	11,831	<0.01%
Blount County	fewer than 5	32,782	<0.01%
Calhoun County	fewer than 5	57,154	<0.01%
Chambers County	fewer than 5	11,975	<0.01%

Cities

Utility counts by mailing city

Utilities group outages by the city in each customer's mailing address. A city's count can include nearby areas outside its city limits, and only covers that utility's customers.

City	Out	Customers i A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.	% out i Customers without power divided by all the customers the utility serves in this area.
Mobile	7	100,098	<0.01%
Birmingham	43	119,230	0.04%
Montgomery	0	90,141	0.00%
Tuscaloosa	fewer than 5	52,108	<0.01%
Hoover	fewer than 5	43,744	<0.01%
Auburn	0	39,760	0.00%
Dothan	0	2,542	0.00%
Prattville	0	17,186	0.00%
Phenix City	10	18,885	0.05%
Vestavia Hills	0	17,935	0.00%
Opelika	0	2,696	0.00%
Alabaster	0	14,167	0.00%

Outage history in Alabama

2014–2025 record

Alabama averaged 10.3 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for states.

In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 10. Half were over within 7.5 hours; the longest lasted 27 hours, starting June 7, 2025.

The largest on record began October 29, 2020, with 497,277 customers out at once.

Outages are most common in May.

10.3significant outages a year (2023–2025)

At least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.

5 hourstypical (median) length

Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.

6 dayslongest on record (September 2020)

497,277most customers out at once

Largest events (start)	Peak out	Lasted i How long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power.	Customer-hours i Customers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours.
October 29, 2020	497,277	5.8 days	21,622,598
September 16, 2020	279,141	6 days	18,739,454
February 16, 2025	195,900	20 hours	1,988,137
June 28, 2018	177,642	26 hours	1,948,971
April 12, 2020	165,855	32 hours	2,557,325

Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).

From EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.

Counties in Alabama

Utilities

Alabama Power
City of Huntsville - (AL) no live feed
Baldwin County El Member Corp no live feed
Singing River Elec Cooperative no live feed
Foley Board of Utilities no live feed
City of Athens - (AL) no live feed
City of Florence - (AL) no live feed
Cullman Electric Coop, Inc no live feed
Central Alabama Electric Coop no live feed