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2021 Monroe County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Monroe County, AL went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 36K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.6 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1710th 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 Monroe 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 | April 24, 2021 06:45 | April 25, 2021 17:45 | 1d 11h | 1,549 | 6,447 |
| 2 | March 18, 2021 02:30 | March 18, 2021 18:45 | 16h 15m | 972 | 5,079 |
| 3 | January 22, 2021 13:30 | January 22, 2021 17:00 | 3h 30m | 905 | 484 |
| 4 | October 14, 2021 01:00 | October 14, 2021 05:30 | 4h 30m | 709 | 1,020 |
| 5 | January 22, 2021 20:45 | January 22, 2021 22:15 | 1h 30m | 539 | 159 |
| 6 | August 20, 2021 19:00 | August 21, 2021 01:15 | 6h 15m | 510 | 1,573 |
| 7 | March 8, 2021 20:30 | March 8, 2021 23:30 | 3h | 453 | 230 |
| 8 | August 30, 2021 01:15 | August 30, 2021 03:00 | 1h 45m | 450 | 119 |
| 9 | August 19, 2021 23:45 | August 20, 2021 02:30 | 2h 45m | 414 | 154 |
| 10 | September 1, 2021 17:45 | September 2, 2021 03:15 | 9h 30m | 358 | 214 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 38 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 Monroe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pioneer Electric Coop, Inc - (AL) | 2018 | 8.3 hrs | 3.01 | 3.7 hrs | 2.37 |
| Baldwin County El Member Corp | 2021 | 1.6 hrs | 1.59 | 81 min | 1.45 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southern Pine Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clarke-Washington E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 10,522 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. Monroe County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Monroe 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/monroe-county