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2018 Clay County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Clay County, AL went without power for an average of 8.2 hours, a total of 46K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 676th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Clay County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 28, 2018 19:45 | June 30, 2018 19:45 | 2d | 2,338 | 21K |
| 2 | July 4, 2018 01:45 | July 4, 2018 21:00 | 19h 15m | 806 | 2,422 |
| 3 | August 17, 2018 18:00 | August 18, 2018 01:00 | 7h | 749 | 1,159 |
| 4 | October 4, 2018 22:00 | October 5, 2018 00:30 | 2h 30m | 659 | 501 |
| 5 | April 25, 2018 20:15 | April 26, 2018 00:15 | 4h | 655 | 378 |
| 6 | November 20, 2018 17:15 | November 20, 2018 19:45 | 2h 30m | 614 | 1,129 |
| 7 | June 27, 2018 22:30 | June 28, 2018 03:30 | 5h | 597 | 657 |
| 8 | July 30, 2018 21:45 | July 31, 2018 01:45 | 4h | 586 | 648 |
| 9 | March 31, 2018 11:15 | March 31, 2018 12:15 | 1h | 547 | 547 |
| 10 | April 3, 2018 19:00 | April 3, 2018 20:00 | 1h | 528 | 311 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 26 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 Clay County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 6.4 hrs | 2.39 | 6.4 hrs | 2.39 |
| Coosa Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 3.9 hrs | 1.76 | 1.8 hrs | 1.01 |
| 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 79% of Alabama's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,554 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. Clay County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay County, AL annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/alabama/clay-county