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2017 Montgomery County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Montgomery County, AL went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 71K customer-hours (Alabama average 1.7 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2281st 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 Montgomery 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 30, 2017 14:30 | December 31, 2017 00:15 | 9h 45m | 8,047 | 12K |
| 2 | June 18, 2017 10:30 | June 18, 2017 15:15 | 4h 45m | 3,707 | 9,014 |
| 3 | December 21, 2017 14:15 | December 22, 2017 00:45 | 10h 30m | 2,391 | 2,010 |
| 4 | November 24, 2017 13:00 | November 24, 2017 17:00 | 4h | 2,159 | 4,575 |
| 5 | November 28, 2017 20:15 | November 30, 2017 21:45 | 2d 1h | 2,069 | 3,129 |
| 6 | December 26, 2017 06:45 | December 26, 2017 14:45 | 8h | 1,608 | 2,833 |
| 7 | May 20, 2017 20:00 | May 20, 2017 23:00 | 3h | 1,560 | 1,784 |
| 8 | October 19, 2017 10:45 | October 20, 2017 05:00 | 18h 15m | 1,426 | 1,171 |
| 9 | December 20, 2017 13:45 | December 20, 2017 16:15 | 2h 30m | 1,151 | 623 |
| 10 | November 24, 2017 18:15 | November 24, 2017 19:45 | 1h 30m | 966 | 243 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 55 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Montgomery 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dixie Electric Coop - (AL) | 2017 | 3.6 hrs | - | 1.9 hrs | - |
| South Alabama Elec Coop, Inc | 2017 | 4.3 hrs | 2.02 | 2.8 hrs | 1.56 |
| 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 ÷ 137,566 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. Montgomery County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Montgomery 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/montgomery-county