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2018 Elmore County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Elmore County, AL went without power for an average of 6.5 hours, a total of 250K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 843rd 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 Elmore 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 18:15 | July 1, 2018 07:30 | 2d 13h | 6,656 | 58K |
| 2 | May 29, 2018 04:15 | May 31, 2018 03:45 | 1d 23h | 5,403 | 29K |
| 3 | October 31, 2018 06:00 | October 31, 2018 06:30 | 30m | 4,864 | 2,432 |
| 4 | October 29, 2018 19:45 | October 30, 2018 01:15 | 5h 30m | 2,625 | 1,333 |
| 5 | October 29, 2018 13:45 | October 29, 2018 14:00 | 15m | 2,621 | 655 |
| 6 | October 31, 2018 02:30 | October 31, 2018 03:30 | 1h | 2,617 | 2,617 |
| 7 | June 12, 2018 12:15 | June 12, 2018 15:00 | 2h 45m | 2,615 | 1,668 |
| 8 | November 1, 2018 12:45 | November 1, 2018 14:15 | 1h 30m | 2,284 | 573 |
| 9 | August 6, 2018 06:45 | August 7, 2018 23:00 | 1d 16h | 2,068 | 3,287 |
| 10 | May 14, 2018 11:45 | May 14, 2018 12:45 | 1h | 1,986 | 1,986 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 132 reached 100+ customers, 31 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 Elmore 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Alabama Electric Coop | 2018 | 4.4 hrs | - | 2.4 hrs | - |
| 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 ÷ 38,649 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. Elmore County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elmore 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/elmore-county