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2023 Dallas County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Dallas County, AL went without power for an average of 34.9 hours, a total of 676K customer-hours (Alabama average 6.3 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 65 Alabama counties and 186th 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 Dallas 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 | January 12, 2023 15:45 | January 19, 2023 03:45 | 6d 12h | 15,358 | 410K |
| 2 | June 14, 2023 18:45 | June 19, 2023 06:00 | 4d 11h | 12,345 | 138K |
| 3 | August 4, 2023 20:15 | August 5, 2023 19:30 | 23h 15m | 2,896 | 11K |
| 4 | April 11, 2023 13:45 | April 11, 2023 19:30 | 5h 45m | 2,879 | 2,224 |
| 5 | April 10, 2023 18:15 | April 10, 2023 23:00 | 4h 45m | 2,877 | 1,461 |
| 6 | March 26, 2023 11:45 | March 29, 2023 15:30 | 3d 3h | 2,204 | 11K |
| 7 | July 30, 2023 19:15 | July 31, 2023 12:45 | 17h 30m | 1,547 | 5,858 |
| 8 | January 19, 2023 04:30 | January 20, 2023 05:30 | 1d 1h | 1,285 | 2,620 |
| 9 | October 12, 2023 01:30 | October 12, 2023 21:30 | 20h | 1,038 | 1,726 |
| 10 | March 25, 2023 05:00 | March 25, 2023 20:30 | 15h 30m | 1,014 | 2,382 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 108 reached 100+ customers, 10 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Dallas 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Alabama Electric Coop | 2023 | 9.5 hrs | - | 4.7 hrs | - |
| Pioneer Electric Coop, Inc - (AL) | 2018 | 8.3 hrs | 3.01 | 3.7 hrs | 2.37 |
| 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 n/a of Alabama's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 19,358 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. Dallas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dallas 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/dallas-county