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2018 Mobile County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Mobile County, AL went without power for an average of 7.8 hours, a total of 864K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 703rd 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 Mobile 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 | September 3, 2018 14:00 | September 8, 2018 06:30 | 4d 16h | 24,425 | 316K |
| 2 | March 2, 2018 12:30 | March 3, 2018 04:30 | 16h | 12,202 | 8,601 |
| 3 | April 13, 2018 10:45 | April 16, 2018 06:30 | 2d 19h | 9,013 | 39K |
| 4 | June 9, 2018 07:45 | June 12, 2018 09:45 | 3d 2h | 5,339 | 23K |
| 5 | June 3, 2018 22:30 | June 5, 2018 06:15 | 1d 7h | 4,465 | 14K |
| 6 | November 1, 2018 04:45 | November 2, 2018 08:00 | 1d 3h | 4,022 | 13K |
| 7 | May 16, 2018 06:15 | May 17, 2018 04:45 | 22h 30m | 3,574 | 5,013 |
| 8 | June 5, 2018 07:15 | June 9, 2018 02:15 | 3d 19h | 3,511 | 13K |
| 9 | May 17, 2018 11:15 | May 21, 2018 03:45 | 3d 16h | 3,471 | 39K |
| 10 | July 16, 2018 09:30 | July 18, 2018 06:30 | 1d 21h | 3,274 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 208 reached 100+ customers, 54 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 Mobile 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singing River Elec Cooperative | 2018 | 4.8 hrs | - | 2.4 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 79% of Alabama's customers in 2018; 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, 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/mobile-county