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2017 Clay County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Clay County, AL went without power for an average of 23.3 hours, a total of 129K customer-hours (Alabama average 1.7 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 236th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Clay County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 8, 2017 14:45 | December 12, 2017 05:15 | 3d 14h | 4,505 | 125K |
| 2 | October 8, 2017 14:00 | October 8, 2017 18:00 | 4h | 347 | 1,137 |
| 3 | December 12, 2017 16:30 | December 13, 2017 03:15 | 10h 45m | 276 | 711 |
| 4 | October 12, 2017 13:30 | October 12, 2017 15:30 | 2h | 236 | 355 |
| 5 | September 5, 2017 23:00 | September 6, 2017 03:00 | 4h | 184 | 116 |
| 6 | December 22, 2017 02:45 | December 22, 2017 04:00 | 1h 15m | 177 | 221 |
| 7 | September 5, 2017 21:30 | September 5, 2017 21:45 | 15m | 125 | 31 |
| 8 | December 20, 2017 02:45 | December 20, 2017 05:30 | 2h 45m | 93 | 256 |
| 9 | November 23, 2017 16:15 | November 23, 2017 17:15 | 1h | 79 | 79 |
| 10 | April 23, 2017 23:00 | April 24, 2017 00:15 | 1h 15m | 64 | 17 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 7 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Clay County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tallapoosa River Elec Coop Inc | 2017 | 3.6 hrs | 1.32 | 3.0 hrs | 1.25 |
| Coosa Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2017 | 6.6 hrs | 2.51 | 2.1 hrs | 1.67 |
| 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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,554 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. Clay County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay County, AL annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/alabama/clay-county