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2017 Talladega County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Talladega County, AL went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 191K customer-hours (Alabama average 1.7 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 980th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Talladega 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 11:00 | December 11, 2017 09:30 | 2d 22h | 6,674 | 159K |
| 2 | August 30, 2017 19:45 | August 31, 2017 00:00 | 4h 15m | 1,022 | 1,406 |
| 3 | December 4, 2017 21:15 | December 4, 2017 21:30 | 15m | 957 | 239 |
| 4 | June 15, 2017 20:45 | June 16, 2017 18:45 | 22h | 891 | 3,352 |
| 5 | April 2, 2017 11:00 | April 5, 2017 16:30 | 3d 5h | 833 | 1,463 |
| 6 | May 4, 2017 11:30 | May 4, 2017 19:30 | 8h | 665 | 769 |
| 7 | October 8, 2017 12:30 | October 9, 2017 01:15 | 12h 45m | 608 | 2,685 |
| 8 | December 7, 2017 13:15 | December 7, 2017 18:30 | 5h 15m | 582 | 689 |
| 9 | December 21, 2017 21:00 | December 21, 2017 23:15 | 2h 15m | 576 | 561 |
| 10 | March 9, 2017 14:30 | March 9, 2017 14:45 | 15m | 485 | 121 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 38 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 Talladega 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Alabama Electric Coop | 2017 | 5.6 hrs | - | 2.4 hrs | - |
| Coosa Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2017 | 6.6 hrs | 2.51 | 2.1 hrs | 1.67 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sylacauga Utilities 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 ÷ 39,215 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. Talladega County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Talladega 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/talladega-county