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2017 Cullman County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Cullman County, AL went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 246K customer-hours (Alabama average 1.7 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1083rd 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 Cullman 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 | May 6, 2017 05:15 | May 6, 2017 11:45 | 6h 30m | 10,606 | 49K |
| 2 | May 28, 2017 06:45 | May 30, 2017 06:00 | 1d 23h | 9,446 | 65K |
| 3 | May 20, 2017 22:00 | May 21, 2017 22:30 | 1d | 7,359 | 48K |
| 4 | June 15, 2017 19:00 | June 16, 2017 00:45 | 5h 45m | 2,168 | 3,093 |
| 5 | August 31, 2017 22:30 | September 2, 2017 02:15 | 1d 3h | 1,968 | 16K |
| 6 | July 14, 2017 12:00 | July 14, 2017 13:30 | 1h 30m | 1,846 | 1,846 |
| 7 | May 24, 2017 12:45 | May 24, 2017 18:30 | 5h 45m | 1,734 | 2,878 |
| 8 | May 19, 2017 13:15 | May 19, 2017 20:15 | 7h | 1,622 | 449 |
| 9 | May 19, 2017 09:00 | May 19, 2017 10:15 | 1h 15m | 1,621 | 1,510 |
| 10 | May 30, 2017 15:15 | May 31, 2017 00:30 | 9h 15m | 1,278 | 1,074 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 69 reached 100+ customers, 13 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Cullman 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cullman Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 7.9 hrs | 2.68 | 3.9 hrs | 2.00 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Arab Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cullman Power Board | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 59,296 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. Cullman County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cullman 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/cullman-county