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2017 Fayette County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Fayette County, AL went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 5,648 customer-hours (Alabama average 1.7 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2177th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Fayette 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 | December 23, 2017 11:00 | December 23, 2017 21:30 | 10h 30m | 395 | 1,110 |
| 2 | October 28, 2017 08:00 | October 28, 2017 14:15 | 6h 15m | 265 | 365 |
| 3 | October 16, 2017 03:15 | October 16, 2017 06:00 | 2h 45m | 246 | 257 |
| 4 | December 27, 2017 13:30 | December 27, 2017 15:30 | 2h | 210 | 154 |
| 5 | December 12, 2017 19:15 | December 12, 2017 23:15 | 4h | 186 | 241 |
| 6 | October 20, 2017 15:15 | October 20, 2017 20:00 | 4h 45m | 133 | 628 |
| 7 | October 25, 2017 07:45 | October 25, 2017 15:45 | 8h | 126 | 297 |
| 8 | October 22, 2017 16:00 | October 22, 2017 17:00 | 1h | 98 | 98 |
| 9 | December 17, 2017 11:45 | December 17, 2017 15:30 | 3h 45m | 85 | 226 |
| 10 | December 16, 2017 15:30 | December 16, 2017 23:15 | 7h 45m | 78 | 84 |
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 Fayette 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tombigbee Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 12.5 hrs | 3.25 | 5.1 hrs | 2.67 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 7,831 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. Fayette County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county