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2017 Marion County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Marion County, AL went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 36K customer-hours (Alabama average 1.7 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1457th 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 Marion 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 17, 2017 13:00 | October 17, 2017 15:45 | 2h 45m | 2,550 | 7,013 |
| 2 | August 8, 2017 21:45 | August 9, 2017 05:00 | 7h 15m | 1,537 | 1,331 |
| 3 | July 15, 2017 22:45 | July 16, 2017 03:45 | 5h | 1,017 | 1,444 |
| 4 | May 29, 2017 17:00 | May 30, 2017 21:30 | 1d 4h | 874 | 7,265 |
| 5 | December 5, 2017 16:30 | December 5, 2017 21:15 | 4h 45m | 690 | 1,403 |
| 6 | April 5, 2017 20:45 | April 6, 2017 13:30 | 16h 45m | 559 | 1,473 |
| 7 | July 21, 2017 15:30 | July 21, 2017 16:15 | 45m | 500 | 291 |
| 8 | July 11, 2017 15:30 | July 11, 2017 17:00 | 1h 30m | 499 | 637 |
| 9 | December 13, 2017 02:00 | December 13, 2017 05:45 | 3h 45m | 441 | 1,654 |
| 10 | November 21, 2017 16:30 | November 21, 2017 18:45 | 2h 15m | 438 | 111 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 30 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Marion 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 ÷ 14,058 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. Marion County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Marion 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/marion-county