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2021 Pickens County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Pickens County, AL went without power for an average of 5.9 hours, a total of 51K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.6 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1164th 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 Pickens 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 4, 2021 17:45 | May 6, 2021 03:30 | 1d 9h | 1,691 | 8,035 |
| 2 | March 17, 2021 16:30 | March 18, 2021 08:15 | 15h 45m | 1,210 | 1,525 |
| 3 | June 8, 2021 22:00 | June 9, 2021 11:45 | 13h 45m | 1,152 | 2,558 |
| 4 | March 23, 2021 17:45 | March 24, 2021 06:15 | 12h 30m | 920 | 1,977 |
| 5 | February 15, 2021 15:15 | February 16, 2021 21:30 | 1d 6h | 887 | 4,637 |
| 6 | September 1, 2021 19:00 | September 2, 2021 11:45 | 16h 45m | 712 | 1,174 |
| 7 | July 4, 2021 00:15 | July 4, 2021 02:15 | 2h | 568 | 149 |
| 8 | August 30, 2021 14:45 | August 31, 2021 22:00 | 1d 7h | 408 | 1,767 |
| 9 | August 19, 2021 11:00 | August 19, 2021 23:00 | 12h | 392 | 335 |
| 10 | August 21, 2021 20:15 | August 22, 2021 05:15 | 9h | 383 | 1,163 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 48 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 Pickens 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Black Warrior Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 8,654 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. Pickens County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pickens 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2021/alabama/pickens-county