City of Dothan, AL
City of Dothan's outage record
Alabama's record with City of Dothan: 0.7 outages in the most recent filing year, 83 minutes without power in total, modestly better than the national norm. That is 78% less outage time than the Alabama state average of 6.2 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
At an average of 1.9 hours per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 32,385 customers here, Outages at City of Dothan run below the national norm, so a generator is not urgent - still worth checking if you have medical equipment or a sump pump that cannot go without power.
Where this number comes from
City of Dothan filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Alabama territory, serving 32,385 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Alabama as a whole, across every utility that filed: Alabama's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.