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2024 Dale County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Dale County, AL went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 43K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 66 Alabama counties and 2488th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Dale County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 19, 2024 01:30 | August 19, 2024 18:45 | 17h 15m | 2,901 | 4,995 |
| 2 | March 9, 2024 08:45 | March 9, 2024 18:45 | 10h | 2,701 | 1,944 |
| 3 | November 8, 2024 13:00 | November 8, 2024 13:15 | 15m | 1,865 | 466 |
| 4 | April 7, 2024 08:00 | April 7, 2024 12:45 | 4h 45m | 1,470 | 618 |
| 5 | March 24, 2024 14:00 | March 24, 2024 16:45 | 2h 45m | 1,390 | 707 |
| 6 | August 16, 2024 22:45 | August 17, 2024 22:00 | 23h 15m | 1,166 | 2,246 |
| 7 | May 10, 2024 22:15 | May 10, 2024 23:45 | 1h 30m | 1,163 | 1,609 |
| 8 | October 16, 2024 12:45 | October 16, 2024 14:30 | 1h 45m | 1,068 | 773 |
| 9 | May 10, 2024 08:15 | May 10, 2024 19:45 | 11h 30m | 895 | 2,650 |
| 10 | May 23, 2024 10:15 | May 23, 2024 13:45 | 3h 30m | 833 | 426 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 36 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 2024, 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 | 2024 | 4.8 hrs | 2.02 | 2.2 hrs | 1.39 |
| Covington Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 3.0 hrs | 1.93 | 2.2 hrs | 1.51 |
| Wiregrass Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 3.2 hrs | 1.64 | 1.8 hrs | 1.27 |
| City of Dothan - (AL) | 2024 | 73 min | 0.75 | 61 min | 0.63 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pea River Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/alabama/dale-county