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2017 Tallapoosa County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Tallapoosa County, AL went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 74K customer-hours (Alabama average 1.7 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1237th 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 Tallapoosa 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 20:45 | December 10, 2017 23:45 | 2d 3h | 4,017 | 63K |
| 2 | October 23, 2017 20:45 | October 23, 2017 22:15 | 1h 30m | 707 | 215 |
| 3 | October 27, 2017 13:15 | October 27, 2017 22:15 | 9h | 638 | 368 |
| 4 | November 28, 2017 18:15 | November 28, 2017 18:30 | 15m | 570 | 143 |
| 5 | December 5, 2017 14:15 | December 5, 2017 19:00 | 4h 45m | 550 | 799 |
| 6 | December 15, 2017 14:15 | December 15, 2017 15:45 | 1h 30m | 506 | 589 |
| 7 | November 21, 2017 20:15 | November 21, 2017 21:15 | 1h | 397 | 100 |
| 8 | December 8, 2017 12:45 | December 8, 2017 14:30 | 1h 45m | 387 | 135 |
| 9 | December 20, 2017 14:30 | December 20, 2017 21:30 | 7h | 343 | 411 |
| 10 | June 15, 2017 21:45 | June 16, 2017 06:00 | 8h 15m | 326 | 910 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 19 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 Tallapoosa 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 | - |
| Dixie Electric Coop - (AL) | 2017 | 3.6 hrs | - | 1.9 hrs | - |
| Tallapoosa River Elec Coop Inc | 2017 | 3.6 hrs | 1.32 | 3.0 hrs | 1.25 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Alexander City | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 22,039 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. Tallapoosa County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Tallapoosa 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/tallapoosa-county