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2018 Dale County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Dale County, AL went without power for an average of 7.6 hours, a total of 190K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 723rd 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 Dale 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 | October 10, 2018 17:45 | October 16, 2018 01:00 | 5d 7h | 6,111 | 150K |
| 2 | June 28, 2018 23:00 | June 29, 2018 07:45 | 8h 45m | 2,092 | 6,928 |
| 3 | December 2, 2018 01:30 | December 2, 2018 18:45 | 17h 15m | 1,114 | 1,916 |
| 4 | March 21, 2018 04:15 | March 21, 2018 05:45 | 1h 30m | 971 | 972 |
| 5 | April 26, 2018 16:15 | April 26, 2018 21:15 | 5h | 711 | 788 |
| 6 | April 10, 2018 14:00 | April 10, 2018 14:45 | 45m | 693 | 520 |
| 7 | April 19, 2018 12:00 | April 19, 2018 18:00 | 6h | 612 | 631 |
| 8 | May 16, 2018 13:15 | May 16, 2018 18:15 | 5h | 611 | 663 |
| 9 | May 13, 2018 18:45 | May 14, 2018 04:30 | 9h 45m | 609 | 1,432 |
| 10 | April 22, 2018 18:30 | April 23, 2018 02:15 | 7h 45m | 570 | 584 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 47 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 Dale 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Alabama Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 4.2 hrs | 2.12 | 2.1 hrs | 1.41 |
| Covington Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.0 hrs | 1.76 | 60 min | 0.99 |
| Wiregrass Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 68.6 hrs | 3.56 | 1.8 hrs | 1.49 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pea River Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Dothan - (AL) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 25,013 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. Dale County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dale 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/dale-county