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2020 Monroe County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Monroe County, AL went without power for an average of 57.0 hours, a total of 600K customer-hours (Alabama average 22.1 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 140th 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 Monroe 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 15, 2020 23:00 | September 22, 2020 21:30 | 6d 22h | 6,793 | 245K |
| 2 | October 29, 2020 01:00 | November 4, 2020 00:15 | 5d 23h | 5,909 | 300K |
| 3 | May 17, 2020 20:00 | May 17, 2020 21:45 | 1h 45m | 3,096 | 4,710 |
| 4 | July 12, 2020 22:15 | July 14, 2020 02:15 | 1d 4h | 1,931 | 5,957 |
| 5 | January 11, 2020 19:00 | January 12, 2020 06:15 | 11h 15m | 1,063 | 2,826 |
| 6 | April 20, 2020 02:45 | April 20, 2020 12:45 | 10h | 1,061 | 2,953 |
| 7 | August 13, 2020 22:30 | August 14, 2020 01:00 | 2h 30m | 646 | 371 |
| 8 | August 25, 2020 06:15 | August 25, 2020 07:00 | 45m | 569 | 427 |
| 9 | February 6, 2020 05:00 | February 6, 2020 19:45 | 14h 45m | 550 | 1,796 |
| 10 | November 28, 2020 01:15 | November 28, 2020 18:45 | 17h 30m | 548 | 1,960 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 36 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Monroe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pioneer Electric Coop, Inc - (AL) | 2018 | 8.3 hrs | 3.01 | 3.7 hrs | 2.37 |
| Baldwin County El Member Corp | 2020 | 117.5 hrs | 4.56 | 1.6 hrs | 1.11 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southern Pine Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clarke-Washington E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 10,522 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. Monroe County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Monroe 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/monroe-county