Power outage history
Jackson County Alabama
0.1hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
99% below the national median
Every day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Jackson's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2019 was the worst well-recorded year, at 4 min for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Jackson, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
| Began | Storm | Peak out | Share | Lasted | 90% restored | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 824 | 3% | 8.2 h | – | 6.8k |
| Jul 18, 2023 | No storm report | 829 | 3% | 6.0 h | – | 5.0k |
| Mar 27, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 825 | 3% | 4.0 h | – | 3.3k |
| Jun 22, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 813 | 3% | 3.0 h | – | 2.4k |
| Feb 18, 2023 | No storm report | 846 | 3% | 2.8 h | – | 2.3k |
| May 31, 2019 | No storm report | 511 | 2% | 3.0 h | – | 1.5k |
| Dec 24, 2022 | Winter storm | 828 | 3% | 3.5 h | – | 1.4k |
| Oct 16, 2020 | No storm report | 820 | 3% | 1.8 h | – | 1.4k |
| Jan 24, 2020 | No storm report | 813 | 3% | 1.8 h | – | 1.4k |
| May 29, 2020 | No storm report | 813 | 3% | 1.5 h | – | 1.2k |
| Jul 17, 2021 | No storm report | 823 | 3% | 1.2 h | – | 1.0k |
| Aug 24, 2021 | No storm report | 824 | 3% | 1.0 h | – | 824 |
| Jul 12, 2021 | No storm report | 823 | 3% | 1.0 h | – | 823 |
| Jan 20, 2022 | No storm report | 824 | 3% | 48 min | – | 618 |
| Jul 4, 2020 | No storm report | 817 | 3% | 48 min | – | 613 |
| Jun 23, 2020 | No storm report | 813 | 3% | 30 min | – | 406 |
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Jackson from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 55%
- Thunderstorms 40%
- Winter storm 4.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Jackson
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Alabama territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sand Mountain Electric Coop | Cooperative | – | – | – | 13.6 | 27k |
| North Alabama Electric Coop | Cooperative | – | – | – | 13.8 | 13k |
| City of Scottsboro | Municipal | 359 | 359 | 2.65 | 13.8 | 7.1k |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
Next door
Neighbouring counties
- Dade, GA 11 h
- Marion, TN 4.5 h
- Franklin, TN 3.0 h
- Madison 2.2 h
- Marshall 0.1 h
- Jackson (this county) 0.1 h
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 29,336 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →