Power Out Map
– 0% of Marion out 0 customers out in Alabama

Power outage history

Marion County Alabama

13hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

18th most of 60 in Alabama 2.1× the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 3, 2023 74% of customers out · 90% back in 43 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 13h / yr State average 7.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 5.3 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 4hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 3.3days Mar 3, 2023, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 69% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 27 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 14,058 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

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 Marion's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 27 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Marion, hours without power per customer

MarionUS median countyAlabama average
0 10 20 30 40 2.6 ’17 5.3 ’18 7.8 ’19 7.1 ’20 23 ’21 7.1 ’22 27 ’23 10 ’24 20 ’25 AL 7.0 US 6.6

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
Mar 3, 2023 Thunderstorms 10,346 74% 3.3 d 43 h 193k
Jun 7, 2025 Thunderstorms 6,279 45% 2.3 d 31 h 132k
Feb 15, 2021 Winter storm 5,951 42% 2.1 d 27 h 101k
Feb 17, 2021 Winter storm 5,090 36% 47 h 24 h 95k
Mar 24, 2023 Tornadoes 5,464 39% 37 h 18 h 45k
Dec 28, 2024 Thunderstorms 3,103 22% 27 h 17 h 30k
Dec 29, 2021 Tornadoes 3,410 24% 23 h 21 h 29k
Aug 6, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,984 14% 22 h 20 h 21k
Mar 4, 2025 Windstorm 3,049 22% 23 h 17 h 20k
Jun 5, 2024 Tornadoes 2,698 19% 22 h 7.0 h 17k
Apr 6, 2025 No storm report 11,879 85% 15 h 2.8 h 16k
Jul 12, 2020 Thunderstorms 9,709 69% 24 h 1.0 h 14k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +4h 90% by +20h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Marion from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Thunderstorms 38%
  • No storm on record 31%
  • Winter storm 16%
  • Tornadoes 9.2%
  • Tropical storm 3.6%
  • Windstorm 1.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Marion

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
Alabama Power Co Investor Owned 410 108 2.06 17.9 1.3M
Tombigbee Electric Coop, Inc AL 929 533 4.33 13.9 96k

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

Across Alabama

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

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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 14,058 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 →