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2020 Baldwin County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Baldwin County, AL went without power for an average of 66.2 hours, a total of 12.9M customer-hours (Alabama average 22.1 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 115th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Baldwin County, 2020
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 15, 2020 02:15 | October 4, 2020 20:45 | 19d 18h | 126,286 | 11.8M |
| 2 | October 28, 2020 12:45 | November 4, 2020 03:00 | 6d 14h | 50,503 | 668K |
| 3 | November 24, 2020 13:00 | November 24, 2020 20:45 | 7h 45m | 24,326 | 11K |
| 4 | June 26, 2020 03:30 | June 26, 2020 07:15 | 3h 45m | 11,161 | 4,598 |
| 5 | January 11, 2020 16:15 | January 16, 2020 23:30 | 5d 7h | 10,981 | 16K |
| 6 | August 19, 2020 09:15 | August 19, 2020 12:30 | 3h 15m | 9,599 | 6,895 |
| 7 | December 18, 2020 10:15 | December 18, 2020 21:15 | 11h | 8,024 | 8,006 |
| 8 | July 12, 2020 01:45 | July 14, 2020 02:00 | 2d | 7,129 | 27K |
| 9 | March 4, 2020 14:30 | June 4, 2020 11:00 | 91d 20h | 5,320 | 226K |
| 10 | August 24, 2020 06:00 | August 24, 2020 10:45 | 4h 45m | 5,228 | 3,950 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 112 reached 100+ customers, 32 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 2020, 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 | 2020 | 117.5 hrs | 4.56 | 1.6 hrs | 1.11 |
| Foley Board of Utilities | 2020 | 97.0 hrs | 3.62 | 64 min | 0.97 |
| 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 81% of Alabama's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/alabama/baldwin-county