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2021 Barbour County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Barbour County, AL went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 48K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.6 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1582nd 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 Barbour 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 | May 5, 2021 00:45 | May 6, 2021 01:45 | 1d 1h | 1,488 | 8,803 |
| 2 | June 5, 2021 03:30 | June 5, 2021 03:45 | 15m | 1,257 | 314 |
| 3 | January 26, 2021 15:45 | January 26, 2021 16:30 | 45m | 1,106 | 554 |
| 4 | April 8, 2021 16:45 | April 8, 2021 20:15 | 3h 30m | 958 | 612 |
| 5 | April 24, 2021 12:30 | April 25, 2021 19:45 | 1d 7h | 791 | 8,823 |
| 6 | August 12, 2021 22:30 | August 13, 2021 06:45 | 8h 15m | 568 | 635 |
| 7 | December 23, 2021 10:15 | December 23, 2021 13:15 | 3h | 533 | 460 |
| 8 | March 31, 2021 21:15 | April 1, 2021 02:45 | 5h 30m | 531 | 699 |
| 9 | August 27, 2021 22:15 | August 28, 2021 00:30 | 2h 15m | 524 | 147 |
| 10 | February 15, 2021 20:45 | February 16, 2021 00:30 | 3h 45m | 497 | 765 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 40 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Barbour 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dixie Electric Coop - (AL) | 2021 | 5.2 hrs | 1.75 | 2.0 hrs | 1.32 |
| Tallapoosa River Elec Coop Inc | 2021 | 4.9 hrs | 2.12 | 3.8 hrs | 1.79 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pea River Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 12,400 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. Barbour County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barbour 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/barbour-county