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2018 Franklin County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Franklin County, AL went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 27K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2221st 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 Franklin 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 | September 5, 2018 22:00 | September 5, 2018 23:00 | 1h | 1,156 | 800 |
| 2 | April 3, 2018 22:00 | April 4, 2018 19:30 | 21h 30m | 1,109 | 4,109 |
| 3 | November 1, 2018 11:15 | November 1, 2018 18:15 | 7h | 536 | 679 |
| 4 | November 6, 2018 06:45 | November 6, 2018 16:45 | 10h | 511 | 4,243 |
| 5 | November 30, 2018 21:15 | November 30, 2018 23:00 | 1h 45m | 496 | 569 |
| 6 | August 21, 2018 02:45 | August 21, 2018 03:45 | 1h | 495 | 495 |
| 7 | October 26, 2018 00:00 | October 26, 2018 01:30 | 1h 30m | 493 | 740 |
| 8 | September 10, 2018 11:15 | September 10, 2018 13:45 | 2h 30m | 420 | 859 |
| 9 | February 26, 2018 15:45 | February 26, 2018 17:30 | 1h 45m | 414 | 286 |
| 10 | March 12, 2018 00:00 | March 12, 2018 01:45 | 1h 45m | 397 | 695 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 22 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Franklin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sheffield Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
| Franklin Electric Coop - (AL) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Russellville - (AL) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 21,671 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. Franklin County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2018/alabama/franklin-county