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2021 Dale County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Dale County, AL went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 35K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.6 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2516th 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 Dale 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 | June 1, 2021 11:45 | June 1, 2021 14:45 | 3h | 1,853 | 3,125 |
| 2 | October 11, 2021 15:15 | October 11, 2021 16:00 | 45m | 1,301 | 688 |
| 3 | August 17, 2021 00:00 | August 17, 2021 19:30 | 19h 30m | 1,259 | 7,236 |
| 4 | August 31, 2021 23:30 | September 1, 2021 03:45 | 4h 15m | 1,218 | 1,424 |
| 5 | December 5, 2021 12:45 | December 5, 2021 14:45 | 2h | 1,024 | 450 |
| 6 | February 4, 2021 01:15 | February 4, 2021 02:15 | 1h | 929 | 533 |
| 7 | May 4, 2021 17:45 | May 5, 2021 21:45 | 1d 4h | 824 | 1,786 |
| 8 | February 16, 2021 23:15 | February 17, 2021 00:45 | 1h 30m | 692 | 700 |
| 9 | August 2, 2021 15:45 | August 2, 2021 19:15 | 3h 30m | 575 | 298 |
| 10 | January 22, 2021 05:45 | January 22, 2021 08:45 | 3h | 547 | 420 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 27 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Dale 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Alabama Elec Coop, Inc | 2021 | 2.8 hrs | 1.28 | 2.3 hrs | 1.16 |
| Covington Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 2.6 hrs | 1.79 | 81 min | 1.34 |
| Wiregrass Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 5.5 hrs | 2.49 | 1.8 hrs | 1.24 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pea River Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Dothan - (AL) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 25,013 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. Dale County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dale 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/dale-county