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2020 Hale County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Hale County, AL went without power for an average of 10.2 hours, a total of 80K customer-hours (Alabama average 22.1 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 779th 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 Hale 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 | August 20, 2020 21:30 | August 21, 2020 10:30 | 13h | 2,722 | 1,583 |
| 2 | April 12, 2020 20:45 | April 14, 2020 23:30 | 2d 2h | 1,770 | 8,366 |
| 3 | June 27, 2020 00:45 | June 27, 2020 06:15 | 5h 30m | 1,612 | 6,211 |
| 4 | August 11, 2020 23:30 | August 12, 2020 01:45 | 2h 15m | 1,410 | 1,513 |
| 5 | May 17, 2020 20:00 | May 17, 2020 21:45 | 1h 45m | 1,321 | 2,110 |
| 6 | July 12, 2020 16:45 | July 13, 2020 06:00 | 13h 15m | 1,209 | 3,135 |
| 7 | June 26, 2020 01:30 | June 26, 2020 18:45 | 17h 15m | 1,062 | 6,024 |
| 8 | October 29, 2020 05:00 | October 30, 2020 15:45 | 1d 10h | 1,044 | 13K |
| 9 | December 2, 2020 09:30 | December 2, 2020 16:45 | 7h 15m | 1,014 | 3,584 |
| 10 | January 11, 2020 09:30 | January 13, 2020 09:30 | 2d | 997 | 7,381 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 41 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 Hale 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Black Warrior Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 7,916 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. Hale County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hale 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/alabama/hale-county