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2018 Etowah County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Etowah County, AL went without power for an average of 6.4 hours, a total of 347K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 857th 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 Etowah 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 11:00 | July 2, 2018 02:00 | 3d 15h | 10,229 | 153K |
| 2 | March 20, 2018 01:00 | March 23, 2018 01:15 | 3d | 6,086 | 39K |
| 3 | April 4, 2018 00:45 | April 4, 2018 19:00 | 18h 15m | 3,414 | 18K |
| 4 | December 8, 2018 13:30 | December 10, 2018 10:45 | 1d 21h | 2,706 | 23K |
| 5 | May 2, 2018 12:45 | May 3, 2018 02:15 | 13h 30m | 2,381 | 729 |
| 6 | August 8, 2018 21:30 | August 10, 2018 04:15 | 1d 6h | 2,037 | 9,734 |
| 7 | December 14, 2018 13:00 | December 14, 2018 21:45 | 8h 45m | 1,519 | 1,253 |
| 8 | August 5, 2018 17:00 | August 5, 2018 20:45 | 3h 45m | 1,464 | 2,203 |
| 9 | June 23, 2018 15:15 | June 24, 2018 05:30 | 14h 15m | 1,454 | 2,751 |
| 10 | April 22, 2018 19:15 | April 23, 2018 23:00 | 1d 3h | 1,300 | 2,850 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 93 reached 100+ customers, 14 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Etowah 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coosa Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 3.9 hrs | 1.76 | 1.8 hrs | 1.01 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cherokee Electric Coop - (AL) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Marshall-De Kalb Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 54,206 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. Etowah County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Etowah 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/etowah-county