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2017 Mobile County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Mobile County, AL went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 120K customer-hours (Alabama average 1.7 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2011th 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 Mobile 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 29, 2017 17:45 | October 31, 2017 07:45 | 1d 14h | 8,596 | 7,855 |
| 2 | October 24, 2017 03:15 | October 25, 2017 04:00 | 1d | 4,501 | 15K |
| 3 | December 8, 2017 07:00 | December 10, 2017 22:45 | 2d 15h | 3,550 | 28K |
| 4 | October 19, 2017 12:15 | October 20, 2017 01:30 | 13h 15m | 2,649 | 2,232 |
| 5 | November 22, 2017 12:30 | November 23, 2017 18:45 | 1d 6h | 2,322 | 4,865 |
| 6 | October 18, 2017 01:00 | October 19, 2017 06:00 | 1d 5h | 1,613 | 1,089 |
| 7 | October 15, 2017 05:45 | October 17, 2017 23:45 | 2d 18h | 1,561 | 7,983 |
| 8 | December 2, 2017 08:00 | December 2, 2017 21:45 | 13h 45m | 1,408 | 3,118 |
| 9 | December 3, 2017 07:00 | December 5, 2017 00:30 | 1d 17h | 1,391 | 4,708 |
| 10 | December 14, 2017 03:30 | December 15, 2017 09:30 | 1d 6h | 1,293 | 2,005 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 38 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Mobile 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singing River Elec Cooperative | 2017 | 10.5 hrs | - | 2.5 hrs | - |
| 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 ÷ 110,135 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. Mobile County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mobile 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/mobile-county