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2018 Baldwin County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Baldwin County, AL went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 286K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2103rd of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Baldwin County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 10, 2018 02:30 | August 10, 2018 17:45 | 15h 15m | 23,538 | 14K |
| 2 | June 14, 2018 09:45 | June 15, 2018 06:00 | 20h 15m | 11,456 | 41K |
| 3 | September 4, 2018 13:00 | September 7, 2018 01:30 | 2d 12h | 4,818 | 21K |
| 4 | April 14, 2018 11:45 | April 15, 2018 13:45 | 1d 2h | 4,131 | 12K |
| 5 | January 6, 2018 13:00 | January 6, 2018 18:15 | 5h 15m | 4,059 | 5,282 |
| 6 | December 12, 2018 13:15 | December 12, 2018 21:15 | 8h | 3,430 | 4,525 |
| 7 | February 17, 2018 00:00 | February 17, 2018 03:30 | 3h 30m | 3,037 | 3,261 |
| 8 | August 21, 2018 11:30 | August 22, 2018 10:15 | 22h 45m | 2,925 | 1,765 |
| 9 | June 28, 2018 07:00 | June 30, 2018 03:45 | 1d 20h | 2,827 | 12K |
| 10 | January 17, 2018 09:15 | January 17, 2018 22:00 | 12h 45m | 2,450 | 17K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 172 reached 100+ customers, 42 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Baldwin County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baldwin County El Member Corp | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.63 | 77 min | 1.22 |
| Foley Board of Utilities | 2018 | 54 min | 1.21 | 54 min | 1.21 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southern Pine Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fairhope - (AL) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Robertsdale | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 79% of Alabama's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 195,253 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. Baldwin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Baldwin County, AL annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/alabama/baldwin-county