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2017 Etowah County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Etowah County, AL went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (Alabama average 1.7 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2320th 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 Etowah 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 9, 2017 16:15 | December 10, 2017 03:00 | 10h 45m | 4,695 | 5,425 |
| 2 | December 8, 2017 15:15 | December 9, 2017 07:30 | 16h 15m | 1,412 | 5,639 |
| 3 | December 25, 2017 19:15 | December 26, 2017 02:45 | 7h 30m | 997 | 1,275 |
| 4 | December 21, 2017 13:00 | December 21, 2017 22:30 | 9h 30m | 706 | 243 |
| 5 | December 23, 2017 12:30 | December 24, 2017 01:45 | 13h 15m | 539 | 879 |
| 6 | October 18, 2017 20:00 | October 18, 2017 21:15 | 1h 15m | 505 | 138 |
| 7 | December 12, 2017 14:00 | December 12, 2017 14:15 | 15m | 495 | 124 |
| 8 | December 22, 2017 05:30 | December 22, 2017 15:30 | 10h | 431 | 952 |
| 9 | October 30, 2017 09:45 | October 30, 2017 11:00 | 1h 15m | 428 | 532 |
| 10 | December 19, 2017 13:45 | December 20, 2017 01:00 | 11h 15m | 370 | 302 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 20 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Etowah 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coosa Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2017 | 6.6 hrs | 2.51 | 2.1 hrs | 1.67 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cherokee Electric Coop - (AL) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Marshall-De Kalb Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 54,206 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. Etowah County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Etowah 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/etowah-county