Power outages in Alabama, by utility
Across 13 Alabama utilities that reported to the federal government, the median customer went without power for 3.9 hours in 2025 — that is 1.3× the national median. Alabama ranks #12 of 41 states for outage time, worst first.
- Median utility
- 3.9 hrs
- typical customer
- Worst utility
- 20.1 hrs
- Diverse Power Incorporated
- Best utility
- 0 hrs
- Singing River Elec Cooperative
- Utilities reporting
- 13
- of 752 nationwide
Every reporting Alabama utility, worst outage time first
| # | Utility | Outage time/yr | Outages/yr | vs US median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diverse Power IncorporatedCooperative | 20.1 hrs1204 min | 2.3 | 6.8× worse |
| 2 | Cullman Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 13 hrs779 min | 3.4 | 4.4× worse |
| 3 | Tallapoosa River Elec Coop IncCooperative | 9.4 hrs567 min | 3.1 | 3.2× worse |
| 4 | Central Alabama Electric CoopCooperative | 7.8 hrs469 min | — | 2.6× worse |
| 5 | Coosa Valley Electric Coop IncCooperative | 5.8 hrs345 min | 2.4 | 1.9× worse |
| 6 | Dixie Electric Coop - (AL)Cooperative | 4.3 hrs258 min | 2.0 | 1.5× worse |
| 7 | South Alabama Elec Coop, IncCooperative | 3.9 hrs235 min | 2.3 | 1.3× worse |
| 8 | Covington Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 3.5 hrs211 min | 2.3 | 1.2× worse |
| 9 | Wiregrass Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 1.9 hrs111 min | 1.5 | 1.6× better |
| 10 | City of Dothan - (AL)Municipal | 1.4 hrs83 min | 0.7 | 2.1× better |
| 11 | Foley Board of UtilitiesMunicipal | 1.2 hrs70 min | 1.1 | 2.5× better |
| 12 | Baldwin County El Member CorpCooperative | 0.8 hrs46 min | 1.5 | 3.9× better |
| 13 | Singing River Elec CooperativeCooperative | 0 hrs1 min | — | 196.9× better |
Outage time is SAIDI: the average minutes a customer went without power across the year, storms and major events included. Outages/yr is SAIFI. The US median across all reporting utilities is 3 hours (178 minutes).
What these numbers do and do not say
SAIDI counts the minutes an average customer spent without power over the year, including storms and other major events. We rank on the figure that includes them, because excluding storms would describe a year nobody actually lived through.
Utilities report these numbers themselves, and smaller co-ops and municipal systems often serve rural territory where a single line fault affects a large share of customers. A high number is not automatically mismanagement — but it is still the power you did not have.
Utilities that filed no reliability data are left out entirely rather than counted as zero.