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2023 Dale County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Dale County, AL went without power for an average of 4.4 hours, a total of 110K customer-hours (Alabama average 6.3 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1591st of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Dale County, 2023
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 14, 2023 14:00 | June 17, 2023 21:15 | 3d 7h | 6,165 | 78K |
| 2 | April 16, 2023 05:15 | April 16, 2023 07:00 | 1h 45m | 2,566 | 865 |
| 3 | April 13, 2023 21:30 | April 14, 2023 00:45 | 3h 15m | 1,111 | 293 |
| 4 | March 27, 2023 14:45 | March 27, 2023 18:15 | 3h 30m | 884 | 689 |
| 5 | September 10, 2023 15:30 | September 10, 2023 16:30 | 1h | 880 | 731 |
| 6 | October 10, 2023 13:15 | October 10, 2023 15:00 | 1h 45m | 838 | 422 |
| 7 | May 23, 2023 08:45 | May 23, 2023 15:30 | 6h 45m | 829 | 843 |
| 8 | January 11, 2023 20:30 | January 11, 2023 21:30 | 1h | 765 | 569 |
| 9 | June 18, 2023 19:30 | June 19, 2023 05:00 | 9h 30m | 745 | 1,699 |
| 10 | June 26, 2023 14:15 | June 27, 2023 02:15 | 12h | 562 | 586 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 35 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 Dale County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 17.8 hrs | 4.16 | 5.4 hrs | 1.98 |
| Covington Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 4.3 hrs | 2.00 | 1.7 hrs | 1.25 |
| Wiregrass Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 6.3 hrs | 3.26 | 1.8 hrs | 1.36 |
| 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 n/a of Alabama's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/alabama/dale-county