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2017 Baldwin County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Baldwin County, AL went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 246K customer-hours (Alabama average 1.7 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1930th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Baldwin County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 2, 2017 20:30 | January 3, 2017 07:30 | 11h | 7,560 | 26K |
| 2 | October 7, 2017 20:00 | October 10, 2017 04:30 | 2d 8h | 4,634 | 31K |
| 3 | December 1, 2017 12:45 | December 2, 2017 00:30 | 11h 45m | 4,525 | 4,432 |
| 4 | September 5, 2017 08:30 | September 5, 2017 22:15 | 13h 45m | 4,315 | 1,168 |
| 5 | August 25, 2017 13:00 | August 25, 2017 20:30 | 7h 30m | 4,005 | 1,063 |
| 6 | April 29, 2017 13:30 | May 3, 2017 00:00 | 3d 10h | 3,819 | 14K |
| 7 | August 4, 2017 09:00 | August 4, 2017 19:00 | 10h | 3,680 | 7,120 |
| 8 | March 27, 2017 16:30 | March 27, 2017 19:15 | 2h 45m | 3,592 | 1,644 |
| 9 | October 23, 2017 10:45 | October 23, 2017 21:15 | 10h 30m | 3,020 | 1,612 |
| 10 | February 7, 2017 15:15 | February 8, 2017 09:30 | 18h 15m | 2,907 | 5,659 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 154 reached 100+ customers, 43 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 Baldwin County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 2.2 hrs | 1.81 | 75 min | 1.02 |
| Foley Board of Utilities | 2017 | 81 min | 1.22 | 63 min | 1.13 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/alabama/baldwin-county