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2017 Russell County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Russell County, AL went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 6,664 customer-hours (Alabama average 1.7 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2406th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Russell 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 | October 30, 2017 10:15 | October 30, 2017 18:45 | 8h 30m | 1,150 | 325 |
| 2 | October 28, 2017 06:30 | October 28, 2017 07:45 | 1h 15m | 979 | 980 |
| 3 | October 27, 2017 12:30 | October 27, 2017 18:00 | 5h 30m | 205 | 606 |
| 4 | December 19, 2017 13:15 | December 19, 2017 19:15 | 6h | 196 | 1,028 |
| 5 | October 18, 2017 14:15 | October 18, 2017 19:15 | 5h | 178 | 342 |
| 6 | December 16, 2017 13:30 | December 16, 2017 18:45 | 5h 15m | 169 | 316 |
| 7 | October 22, 2017 03:30 | October 22, 2017 13:00 | 9h 30m | 130 | 343 |
| 8 | May 21, 2017 00:15 | May 21, 2017 01:00 | 45m | 119 | 61 |
| 9 | October 23, 2017 11:15 | October 23, 2017 12:30 | 1h 15m | 106 | 132 |
| 10 | December 8, 2017 18:45 | December 8, 2017 19:15 | 30m | 102 | 51 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 11 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 Russell 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 |
| 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 ÷ 21,728 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. Russell County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Russell 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/russell-county