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2020 Fayette County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Fayette County, AL went without power for an average of 14.9 hours, a total of 117K customer-hours (Alabama average 22.1 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 565th 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 Fayette 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 12, 2020 21:30 | April 15, 2020 03:45 | 2d 6h | 3,193 | 52K |
| 2 | March 23, 2020 10:00 | March 24, 2020 03:15 | 17h 15m | 1,387 | 12K |
| 3 | October 10, 2020 12:30 | October 11, 2020 00:15 | 11h 45m | 1,076 | 1,230 |
| 4 | October 29, 2020 02:00 | October 29, 2020 18:00 | 16h | 1,021 | 2,560 |
| 5 | February 11, 2020 06:15 | February 11, 2020 08:00 | 1h 45m | 1,005 | 551 |
| 6 | August 10, 2020 20:45 | August 11, 2020 07:00 | 10h 15m | 872 | 2,609 |
| 7 | February 1, 2020 12:15 | February 1, 2020 15:00 | 2h 45m | 725 | 1,227 |
| 8 | January 11, 2020 06:45 | January 12, 2020 18:15 | 1d 11h | 705 | 5,209 |
| 9 | August 27, 2020 15:15 | August 28, 2020 18:15 | 1d 3h | 705 | 1,942 |
| 10 | May 17, 2020 20:15 | May 17, 2020 21:45 | 1h 30m | 627 | 941 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 45 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Fayette 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tombigbee Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 6.7 hrs | 2.31 | 6.7 hrs | 2.31 |
| 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 81% of Alabama's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,831 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. Fayette County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county