County annual report · FIPS 01045
2016 Dale County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Dale County, AL went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 7,653 customer-hours (Alabama average 0.7 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 29 Alabama counties and 2113th 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 Dale 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 | August 13, 2016 21:15 | August 13, 2016 22:45 | 1h 30m | 523 | 785 |
| 2 | February 16, 2016 00:30 | February 16, 2016 09:45 | 9h 15m | 516 | 4,773 |
| 3 | August 14, 2016 20:45 | August 14, 2016 22:00 | 1h 15m | 345 | 427 |
| 4 | August 15, 2016 14:00 | August 15, 2016 14:15 | 15m | 341 | 85 |
| 5 | March 24, 2016 20:45 | March 24, 2016 22:15 | 1h 30m | 272 | 408 |
| 6 | June 18, 2016 00:15 | June 18, 2016 21:15 | 21h | 216 | 442 |
| 7 | August 19, 2016 23:15 | August 20, 2016 01:15 | 2h | 166 | 260 |
| 8 | February 24, 2016 04:30 | February 24, 2016 15:15 | 10h 45m | 124 | 330 |
| 9 | June 6, 2016 22:15 | June 7, 2016 01:30 | 3h 15m | 29 | 73 |
| 10 | April 17, 2016 19:15 | April 17, 2016 20:00 | 45m | 24 | 13 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 8 reached 100+ customers, 0 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 Dale 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Alabama Elec Coop, Inc | 2016 | 4.0 hrs | 1.52 | 1.7 hrs | 1.04 |
| Covington Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 2.4 hrs | 1.50 | 55 min | 0.90 |
| Wiregrass Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 2.5 hrs | 1.38 | 1.8 hrs | 1.22 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pea River Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Dothan - (AL) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 25,013 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. Dale County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dale 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/dale-county