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2017 Walker County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Walker County, AL went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 21K customer-hours (Alabama average 1.7 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2225th 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 Walker 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 17, 2017 13:15 | October 17, 2017 17:45 | 4h 30m | 796 | 841 |
| 2 | December 23, 2017 09:45 | December 23, 2017 21:00 | 11h 15m | 628 | 1,539 |
| 3 | November 29, 2017 19:15 | November 30, 2017 02:15 | 7h | 600 | 485 |
| 4 | December 20, 2017 03:30 | December 20, 2017 18:45 | 15h 15m | 418 | 2,252 |
| 5 | December 5, 2017 12:45 | December 6, 2017 00:30 | 11h 45m | 403 | 774 |
| 6 | October 23, 2017 07:30 | October 23, 2017 13:45 | 6h 15m | 375 | 758 |
| 7 | October 16, 2017 02:00 | October 16, 2017 13:15 | 11h 15m | 348 | 1,971 |
| 8 | December 13, 2017 05:45 | December 13, 2017 17:30 | 11h 45m | 321 | 1,118 |
| 9 | November 21, 2017 05:30 | November 21, 2017 12:15 | 6h 45m | 319 | 1,913 |
| 10 | December 28, 2017 19:30 | December 29, 2017 03:00 | 7h 30m | 249 | 578 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 25 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Walker 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 32,987 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. Walker County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Walker 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2017/alabama/walker-county