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2017 Sumter County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Sumter County, AL went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 7,646 customer-hours (Alabama average 1.7 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1997th 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 Sumter 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 02:15 | October 17, 2017 13:00 | 10h 45m | 850 | 940 |
| 2 | November 30, 2017 12:30 | November 30, 2017 14:30 | 2h | 688 | 616 |
| 3 | December 8, 2017 12:15 | December 9, 2017 16:45 | 1d 4h | 664 | 3,547 |
| 4 | October 18, 2017 14:00 | October 18, 2017 21:15 | 7h 15m | 496 | 1,104 |
| 5 | October 16, 2017 01:15 | October 16, 2017 02:15 | 1h | 227 | 227 |
| 6 | October 30, 2017 19:30 | October 30, 2017 23:15 | 3h 45m | 112 | 229 |
| 7 | December 3, 2017 02:30 | December 3, 2017 04:00 | 1h 30m | 105 | 135 |
| 8 | December 19, 2017 13:45 | December 19, 2017 22:00 | 8h 15m | 69 | 211 |
| 9 | October 27, 2017 03:30 | October 27, 2017 05:00 | 1h 30m | 42 | 63 |
| 10 | December 9, 2017 17:45 | December 10, 2017 00:00 | 6h 15m | 42 | 131 |
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 Sumter 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Black Warrior Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,825 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. Sumter County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sumter 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2017/alabama/sumter-county