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2020 Pickens County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Pickens County, AL went without power for an average of 16.5 hours, a total of 143K customer-hours (Alabama average 22.1 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 507th 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 Pickens 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 20:45 | April 15, 2020 02:30 | 2d 5h | 4,445 | 62K |
| 2 | May 17, 2020 20:00 | May 17, 2020 22:30 | 2h 30m | 1,946 | 3,046 |
| 3 | January 11, 2020 06:15 | January 13, 2020 06:30 | 2d | 1,672 | 19K |
| 4 | April 9, 2020 10:30 | April 9, 2020 13:00 | 2h 30m | 1,546 | 2,520 |
| 5 | April 19, 2020 08:45 | April 20, 2020 08:00 | 23h 15m | 1,470 | 3,468 |
| 6 | July 3, 2020 22:45 | July 4, 2020 22:45 | 1d | 1,453 | 14K |
| 7 | July 5, 2020 00:00 | July 5, 2020 02:45 | 2h 45m | 1,429 | 2,278 |
| 8 | February 12, 2020 16:45 | February 12, 2020 20:15 | 3h 30m | 825 | 362 |
| 9 | May 6, 2020 12:00 | May 6, 2020 13:30 | 1h 30m | 736 | 467 |
| 10 | June 8, 2020 07:45 | June 9, 2020 04:15 | 20h 30m | 710 | 1,678 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 44 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Pickens 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 ÷ 8,654 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. Pickens County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pickens 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/pickens-county