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2016 Baldwin County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Baldwin County, AL went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 146K customer-hours (Alabama average 0.7 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 29 Alabama counties and 1896th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Baldwin County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 31, 2016 06:45 | October 31, 2016 12:00 | 5h 15m | 19,049 | 19K |
| 2 | July 12, 2016 11:00 | July 12, 2016 20:45 | 9h 45m | 13,342 | 10K |
| 3 | September 16, 2016 12:45 | September 16, 2016 19:45 | 7h | 8,130 | 5,703 |
| 4 | April 21, 2016 13:00 | April 21, 2016 20:15 | 7h 15m | 6,072 | 1,545 |
| 5 | January 22, 2016 01:15 | January 22, 2016 11:45 | 10h 30m | 5,446 | 2,115 |
| 6 | December 29, 2016 13:30 | December 29, 2016 22:45 | 9h 15m | 4,365 | 7,067 |
| 7 | January 11, 2016 13:15 | January 12, 2016 23:30 | 1d 10h | 3,181 | 1,012 |
| 8 | October 14, 2016 15:00 | October 14, 2016 16:00 | 1h | 2,738 | 685 |
| 9 | May 20, 2016 06:45 | May 20, 2016 18:00 | 11h 15m | 2,503 | 5,444 |
| 10 | February 10, 2016 04:45 | February 10, 2016 06:45 | 2h | 2,412 | 3,376 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 106 reached 100+ customers, 23 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Baldwin County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baldwin County El Member Corp | 2016 | 86 min | 1.30 | 69 min | 1.06 |
| Foley Board of Utilities | 2016 | 1.6 hrs | 1.82 | 73 min | 1.36 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southern Pine Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fairhope - (AL) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Robertsdale | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Alabama's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 195,253 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Baldwin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Baldwin County, AL annual power outage report, 2016, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/alabama/baldwin-county