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2020 Madison County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Madison County, AL went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 652K customer-hours (Alabama average 22.1 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1790th 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 Madison 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 24, 2020 15:30 | August 24, 2020 20:45 | 5h 15m | 36,965 | 102K |
| 2 | August 24, 2020 00:15 | August 24, 2020 05:45 | 5h 30m | 35,280 | 52K |
| 3 | June 29, 2020 02:30 | June 29, 2020 07:00 | 4h 30m | 34,640 | 52K |
| 4 | August 11, 2020 09:30 | August 11, 2020 11:45 | 2h 15m | 26,647 | 27K |
| 5 | March 25, 2020 00:00 | March 25, 2020 09:00 | 9h | 16,121 | 34K |
| 6 | September 27, 2020 05:15 | September 27, 2020 11:15 | 6h | 14,702 | 37K |
| 7 | August 6, 2020 06:45 | August 6, 2020 08:30 | 1h 45m | 14,591 | 26K |
| 8 | January 11, 2020 11:15 | January 13, 2020 00:45 | 1d 13h | 13,173 | 36K |
| 9 | May 3, 2020 21:45 | May 5, 2020 19:00 | 1d 21h | 10,124 | 55K |
| 10 | June 30, 2020 21:30 | July 1, 2020 13:45 | 16h 15m | 8,785 | 16K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 111 reached 100+ customers, 72 reached 1,000+ customers, 9 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 Madison 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Huntsville - (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 ÷ 198,793 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. Madison County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Madison 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/madison-county