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2020 Barbour County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Barbour County, AL went without power for an average of 11.1 hours, a total of 138K customer-hours (Alabama average 22.1 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 721st 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 Barbour 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 | April 13, 2020 03:45 | April 14, 2020 20:45 | 1d 17h | 3,590 | 23K |
| 2 | April 20, 2020 04:30 | April 22, 2020 05:00 | 2d | 3,053 | 50K |
| 3 | January 4, 2020 18:15 | January 5, 2020 02:30 | 8h 15m | 2,604 | 3,314 |
| 4 | August 3, 2020 18:00 | August 3, 2020 22:15 | 4h 15m | 1,976 | 1,003 |
| 5 | November 24, 2020 17:15 | November 25, 2020 04:00 | 10h 45m | 1,664 | 987 |
| 6 | August 11, 2020 00:45 | August 11, 2020 20:45 | 20h | 1,377 | 6,726 |
| 7 | September 16, 2020 12:30 | September 18, 2020 01:45 | 1d 13h | 1,331 | 11K |
| 8 | March 31, 2020 17:00 | April 1, 2020 01:45 | 8h 45m | 1,096 | 4,422 |
| 9 | January 11, 2020 22:30 | January 12, 2020 10:00 | 11h 30m | 1,052 | 3,637 |
| 10 | June 29, 2020 00:00 | June 29, 2020 09:15 | 9h 15m | 784 | 2,428 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 50 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Barbour 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dixie Electric Coop - (AL) | 2020 | 5.4 hrs | 2.55 | 2.5 hrs | 2.12 |
| Tallapoosa River Elec Coop Inc | 2020 | 15.0 hrs | 2.90 | 5.4 hrs | 2.30 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pea River Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 12,400 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. Barbour County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barbour 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/barbour-county