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2017 Dale County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Dale County, AL went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 5,601 customer-hours (Alabama average 1.7 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2462nd 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 Dale 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 | October 20, 2017 20:45 | October 20, 2017 22:30 | 1h 45m | 299 | 520 |
| 2 | October 25, 2017 02:30 | October 25, 2017 07:00 | 4h 30m | 298 | 447 |
| 3 | May 1, 2017 08:15 | May 1, 2017 09:45 | 1h 30m | 283 | 425 |
| 4 | December 8, 2017 09:30 | December 8, 2017 11:30 | 2h | 264 | 447 |
| 5 | December 8, 2017 13:00 | December 8, 2017 15:45 | 2h 45m | 264 | 525 |
| 6 | October 19, 2017 14:15 | October 19, 2017 21:45 | 7h 30m | 195 | 659 |
| 7 | December 19, 2017 17:30 | December 19, 2017 19:15 | 1h 45m | 145 | 182 |
| 8 | September 11, 2017 16:30 | September 11, 2017 17:30 | 1h | 78 | 59 |
| 9 | December 13, 2017 14:45 | December 13, 2017 15:45 | 1h | 73 | 73 |
| 10 | November 23, 2017 13:00 | November 23, 2017 15:00 | 2h | 72 | 91 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 7 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Alabama Elec Coop, Inc | 2017 | 4.3 hrs | 2.02 | 2.8 hrs | 1.56 |
| Covington Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 1.8 hrs | 1.81 | 68 min | 1.13 |
| Wiregrass Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 2.7 hrs | 1.37 | 77 min | 0.93 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/dale-county