Power outage history
Baldwin County Alabama
9.5hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
27th most of 60 in Alabama 1.5× the national median
Every day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Baldwin's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.8 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Baldwin, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
| Began | Storm | Peak out | Share | Lasted | 90% restored | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2020 | Hurricane Sally | 126,286 | 65% | 9.6 d | 3.5 h | 12M |
| Oct 28, 2020 | Hurricane Zeta | 50,503 | 26% | 45 h | 19 h | 645k |
| May 10, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 19,662 | 10% | 12 h | 11 h | 97k |
| Jun 14, 2018 | No storm report | 11,456 | 6% | 7.5 h | 7.8 h | 41k |
| Jun 16, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 7,929 | 4% | 8.8 h | 20 h | 39k |
| May 27, 2025 | No storm report | 13,622 | 7% | 6.5 h | 6.5 h | 32k |
| Jan 8, 2024 | Tornadoes | 6,191 | 3% | 11 h | 9.2 h | 31k |
| May 13, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 9,970 | 5% | 5.5 h | 5.0 h | 31k |
| Oct 27, 2024 | No storm report | 14,295 | 7% | 2.0 h | 1.0 h | 25k |
| Oct 7, 2017 | Hurricane Nate | 4,634 | 2% | 10 h | – | 23k |
| Jan 2, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 7,560 | 4% | 4.5 h | 5.2 h | 22k |
| Oct 31, 2016 | No storm report | 19,049 | 10% | 1.2 h | 30 min | 19k |
| Dec 12, 2015 | No storm report | 11,724 | 6% | 2.8 h | 2.8 h | 18k |
| Apr 15, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 10,996 | 6% | 2.8 h | 3.2 h | 18k |
| Dec 24, 2022 | No storm report | 4,366 | 2% | 5.0 h | – | 17k |
| Apr 10, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 5,751 | 3% | 5.5 h | 4.8 h | 15k |
| Jan 17, 2023 | No storm report | 13,027 | 7% | 2.5 h | 4.2 h | 13k |
| Dec 23, 2022 | No storm report | 5,098 | 3% | 5.2 h | 2.0 h | 13k |
| Jun 16, 2023 | Tornadoes | 3,395 | 2% | 4.0 h | – | 12k |
| Sep 4, 2018 | Tropical Storm Gordon | 4,818 | 2% | 5.0 h | – | 11k |
| Jul 11, 2020 | No storm report | 7,129 | 4% | 1.8 h | 1.5 h | 11k |
| Jul 13, 2025 | No storm report | 2,587 | 1% | 4.0 h | – | 10k |
| Jan 22, 2025 | Winter storm | 13,090 | 7% | 48 min | 12 min | 9.8k |
| Sep 10, 2024 | No storm report | 17,876 | 9% | 30 min | 30 min | 8.9k |
| Jul 12, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 4,431 | 2% | 2.8 h | – | 8.9k |
| Apr 19, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 5,320 | 3% | 2.0 h | 5.0 h | 8.7k |
| Jul 12, 2016 | No storm report | 13,342 | 7% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 8.6k |
| Mar 30, 2022 | Tornadoes | 9,316 | 5% | 1.2 h | 1.8 h | 8.1k |
| Apr 14, 2018 | No storm report | 4,131 | 2% | 2.0 h | – | 7.9k |
| Jun 28, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 2,827 | 1% | 3.0 h | – | 7.8k |
After the peak
How fast the lights come back
Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Baldwin from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tropical storm 95%
- No storm on record 2.6%
- Thunderstorms 1.9%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Baldwin
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Alabama territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama Power Co | Investor Owned | 410 | 108 | 2.06 | 17.9 | 1.3M |
| Baldwin County El Member Corp | Cooperative | 46 | 24 | 1.50 | 14.2 | 85k |
| City of Fairhope | AL | 14 | 14 | 1.00 | 11.2 | 80k |
| Foley Board of Utilities | Municipal | 70 | 41 | 1.07 | 14.0 | 54k |
| City of Robertsdale | AL | – | – | – | – | 38k |
| Southern Pine Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 14.6 | 21k |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
Next door
Neighbouring counties
- Mobile 20 h
- Monroe 11 h
- Escambia, FL 10 h
- Baldwin (this county) 9.5 h
- Escambia 6.4 h
- Clarke 5.9 h
- Washington 2.1 h
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 195,253 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →