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2019 Dale County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Dale County, AL went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 31K customer-hours (Alabama average 3.2 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 66 Alabama counties and 2400th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Dale County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 22, 2019 19:00 | April 22, 2019 19:45 | 45m | 6,031 | 1,509 |
| 2 | February 10, 2019 11:45 | February 10, 2019 12:45 | 1h | 2,013 | 910 |
| 3 | May 2, 2019 13:45 | May 2, 2019 15:45 | 2h | 1,740 | 2,528 |
| 4 | March 2, 2019 13:45 | March 2, 2019 16:30 | 2h 45m | 1,155 | 1,326 |
| 5 | January 24, 2019 01:30 | January 24, 2019 06:30 | 5h | 969 | 2,836 |
| 6 | June 7, 2019 05:30 | June 7, 2019 06:45 | 1h 15m | 904 | 1,130 |
| 7 | July 10, 2019 17:00 | July 10, 2019 20:00 | 3h | 696 | 525 |
| 8 | February 19, 2019 15:15 | February 19, 2019 18:45 | 3h 30m | 600 | 616 |
| 9 | November 7, 2019 14:30 | November 7, 2019 21:30 | 7h | 597 | 309 |
| 10 | February 10, 2019 03:00 | February 10, 2019 03:15 | 15m | 509 | 127 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 37 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 2019, 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 81% of Alabama's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/alabama/dale-county