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2021 Baldwin County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Baldwin County, AL went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 240K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.6 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2577th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Baldwin County, 2021
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 28, 2021 11:00 | September 29, 2021 21:15 | 1d 10h | 27,879 | 18K |
| 2 | May 24, 2021 02:00 | May 24, 2021 07:00 | 5h | 12,862 | 7,608 |
| 3 | April 9, 2021 11:45 | April 12, 2021 12:15 | 3d | 5,751 | 27K |
| 4 | July 26, 2021 14:45 | July 28, 2021 09:30 | 1d 18h | 3,521 | 9,075 |
| 5 | May 18, 2021 03:45 | May 21, 2021 21:45 | 3d 18h | 3,295 | 2,777 |
| 6 | November 30, 2021 13:00 | December 8, 2021 13:15 | 8d | 3,200 | 11K |
| 7 | June 3, 2021 11:30 | June 14, 2021 01:00 | 10d 13h | 2,697 | 13K |
| 8 | June 17, 2021 22:00 | June 20, 2021 01:30 | 2d 3h | 2,492 | 5,298 |
| 9 | April 24, 2021 10:15 | April 25, 2021 10:00 | 23h 45m | 2,186 | 13K |
| 10 | July 16, 2021 12:30 | July 16, 2021 21:45 | 9h 15m | 1,995 | 4,027 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 150 reached 100+ customers, 30 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Baldwin County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baldwin County El Member Corp | 2021 | 1.6 hrs | 1.59 | 81 min | 1.45 |
| Foley Board of Utilities | 2021 | 51 min | 0.89 | 45 min | 0.85 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southern Pine Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fairhope - (AL) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Robertsdale | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 195,253 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. Baldwin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Baldwin County, AL annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/alabama/baldwin-county