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2020 Dale County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Dale County, AL went without power for an average of 6.1 hours, a total of 153K customer-hours (Alabama average 22.1 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1219th 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 Dale 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 20, 2020 04:30 | April 22, 2020 13:30 | 2d 9h | 7,463 | 92K |
| 2 | October 21, 2020 09:45 | October 21, 2020 10:00 | 15m | 1,819 | 455 |
| 3 | April 12, 2020 22:00 | April 14, 2020 05:00 | 1d 7h | 1,547 | 11K |
| 4 | March 31, 2020 16:30 | March 31, 2020 18:00 | 1h 30m | 1,396 | 358 |
| 5 | March 7, 2020 13:15 | March 7, 2020 21:15 | 8h | 1,266 | 596 |
| 6 | September 16, 2020 07:30 | September 17, 2020 12:30 | 1d 5h | 1,220 | 3,310 |
| 7 | January 11, 2020 22:30 | January 12, 2020 07:15 | 8h 45m | 1,147 | 3,471 |
| 8 | February 5, 2020 17:45 | February 6, 2020 03:30 | 9h 45m | 1,052 | 585 |
| 9 | June 7, 2020 09:30 | June 7, 2020 11:00 | 1h 30m | 914 | 1,269 |
| 10 | October 11, 2020 12:30 | October 11, 2020 17:45 | 5h 15m | 883 | 3,284 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 53 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Alabama Elec Coop, Inc | 2020 | 28.0 hrs | 3.72 | 3.1 hrs | 1.79 |
| Covington Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 12.5 hrs | 3.03 | 6.9 hrs | 2.05 |
| Wiregrass Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 19.8 hrs | 2.47 | 1.7 hrs | 1.13 |
| 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 2020; 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, 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/dale-county