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2023 Fayette County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Fayette County, AL went without power for an average of 29.3 hours, a total of 230K customer-hours (Alabama average 6.3 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 247th 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 Fayette 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 | March 3, 2023 15:30 | March 7, 2023 00:00 | 3d 8h | 5,915 | 116K |
| 2 | August 6, 2023 18:15 | August 8, 2023 02:45 | 1d 8h | 2,035 | 17K |
| 3 | July 19, 2023 02:00 | July 20, 2023 04:15 | 1d 2h | 1,826 | 20K |
| 4 | July 21, 2023 22:00 | July 22, 2023 10:15 | 12h 15m | 1,650 | 11K |
| 5 | June 29, 2023 23:30 | July 1, 2023 00:15 | 1d | 1,002 | 3,109 |
| 6 | February 28, 2023 17:00 | February 28, 2023 17:15 | 15m | 972 | 243 |
| 7 | July 6, 2023 20:45 | July 7, 2023 05:45 | 9h | 861 | 2,180 |
| 8 | November 21, 2023 03:15 | November 21, 2023 22:00 | 18h 45m | 847 | 3,489 |
| 9 | August 4, 2023 15:15 | August 4, 2023 16:15 | 1h | 802 | 203 |
| 10 | August 11, 2023 05:15 | August 11, 2023 18:00 | 12h 45m | 786 | 2,135 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 73 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Fayette 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 n/a of Alabama's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,831 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. Fayette County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county