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2018 Cullman County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Cullman County, AL went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 192K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1432nd 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 Cullman 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 | February 11, 2018 04:15 | February 11, 2018 07:15 | 3h | 5,388 | 8,019 |
| 2 | May 2, 2018 17:30 | May 2, 2018 22:00 | 4h 30m | 4,572 | 3,083 |
| 3 | December 9, 2018 00:00 | December 10, 2018 01:00 | 1d 1h | 4,249 | 22K |
| 4 | August 31, 2018 12:15 | August 31, 2018 16:00 | 3h 45m | 3,791 | 4,755 |
| 5 | June 28, 2018 18:45 | June 29, 2018 06:00 | 11h 15m | 3,431 | 9,310 |
| 6 | June 27, 2018 19:00 | June 28, 2018 05:30 | 10h 30m | 2,404 | 5,127 |
| 7 | February 6, 2018 21:30 | February 6, 2018 23:00 | 1h 30m | 2,213 | 1,514 |
| 8 | March 19, 2018 23:30 | March 20, 2018 22:30 | 23h | 1,977 | 10K |
| 9 | April 4, 2018 03:45 | April 4, 2018 15:00 | 11h 15m | 1,678 | 5,575 |
| 10 | September 4, 2018 14:45 | September 4, 2018 16:30 | 1h 45m | 1,671 | 2,105 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 111 reached 100+ customers, 28 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 Cullman 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cullman Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 5.2 hrs | 2.76 | 5.2 hrs | 2.76 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Arab Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cullman Power 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 79% of Alabama's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 59,296 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. Cullman County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cullman 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/cullman-county