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2021 Marion County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Marion County, AL went without power for an average of 23.1 hours, a total of 325K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.6 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 65 Alabama counties and 368th 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 Marion 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 | February 15, 2021 14:15 | February 20, 2021 05:15 | 4d 15h | 5,951 | 197K |
| 2 | December 29, 2021 22:15 | December 31, 2021 00:15 | 1d 2h | 3,410 | 29K |
| 3 | August 6, 2021 23:45 | August 7, 2021 00:30 | 45m | 2,707 | 679 |
| 4 | May 4, 2021 21:00 | May 6, 2021 03:45 | 1d 6h | 2,189 | 12K |
| 5 | April 22, 2021 18:45 | April 22, 2021 19:15 | 30m | 2,055 | 1,028 |
| 6 | May 9, 2021 14:45 | May 10, 2021 14:45 | 1d | 1,678 | 3,107 |
| 7 | March 18, 2021 01:15 | March 18, 2021 19:00 | 17h 45m | 1,459 | 4,712 |
| 8 | August 30, 2021 18:30 | August 31, 2021 21:00 | 1d 2h | 1,440 | 4,883 |
| 9 | April 18, 2021 13:45 | April 18, 2021 15:15 | 1h 30m | 1,128 | 1,485 |
| 10 | December 11, 2021 09:45 | December 11, 2021 23:45 | 14h | 1,084 | 3,132 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 73 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Marion 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 ÷ 14,058 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. Marion County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Marion 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/marion-county