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2020 Mobile County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Mobile County, AL went without power for an average of 106.8 hours, a total of 11.8M customer-hours (Alabama average 22.1 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 59th 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 Mobile 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 | September 13, 2020 19:30 | September 27, 2020 01:45 | 13d 6h | 143,114 | 6.4M |
| 2 | October 28, 2020 07:15 | November 9, 2020 04:15 | 11d 21h | 114,468 | 4.4M |
| 3 | May 17, 2020 19:15 | May 18, 2020 06:45 | 11h 30m | 25,741 | 40K |
| 4 | June 6, 2020 15:30 | June 10, 2020 05:15 | 3d 13h | 16,818 | 139K |
| 5 | January 15, 2020 09:15 | January 17, 2020 03:00 | 1d 17h | 11,965 | 27K |
| 6 | January 9, 2020 01:45 | January 10, 2020 01:15 | 23h 30m | 11,907 | 15K |
| 7 | August 20, 2020 02:15 | August 21, 2020 02:15 | 1d | 8,947 | 2,669 |
| 8 | May 26, 2020 05:00 | May 29, 2020 00:15 | 2d 19h | 8,419 | 31K |
| 9 | June 23, 2020 12:15 | June 26, 2020 08:00 | 2d 19h | 7,298 | 25K |
| 10 | April 19, 2020 19:45 | April 21, 2020 05:15 | 1d 9h | 7,062 | 28K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 216 reached 100+ customers, 77 reached 1,000+ customers, 6 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 Mobile 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singing River Elec Cooperative | 2020 | 70.0 hrs | - | 2.8 hrs | - |
| 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 ÷ 110,135 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. Mobile County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mobile 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/mobile-county