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2021 Fayette County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Fayette County, AL went without power for an average of 11.4 hours, a total of 89K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.6 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 704th 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 Fayette 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 | August 30, 2021 20:45 | August 31, 2021 23:30 | 1d 2h | 1,208 | 6,835 |
| 2 | April 8, 2021 19:15 | April 9, 2021 00:15 | 5h | 974 | 1,510 |
| 3 | April 22, 2021 17:30 | April 22, 2021 19:15 | 1h 45m | 961 | 484 |
| 4 | April 18, 2021 12:45 | April 19, 2021 00:30 | 11h 45m | 910 | 1,084 |
| 5 | June 13, 2021 16:15 | June 14, 2021 10:15 | 18h | 909 | 6,873 |
| 6 | June 14, 2021 11:00 | June 14, 2021 17:45 | 6h 45m | 868 | 241 |
| 7 | June 22, 2021 05:00 | June 22, 2021 09:45 | 4h 45m | 832 | 2,010 |
| 8 | June 23, 2021 12:15 | June 24, 2021 00:45 | 12h 30m | 825 | 3,315 |
| 9 | July 2, 2021 04:00 | July 2, 2021 10:15 | 6h 15m | 739 | 1,857 |
| 10 | August 19, 2021 13:30 | August 20, 2021 02:45 | 13h 15m | 736 | 1,523 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 64 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Fayette 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tombigbee Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 6.7 hrs | 2.31 | 6.7 hrs | 2.31 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 7,831 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. Fayette County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county