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2018 Russell County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Russell County, AL went without power for an average of 5.7 hours, a total of 123K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 954th 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 Russell 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 | October 10, 2018 17:45 | October 12, 2018 03:45 | 1d 10h | 2,988 | 38K |
| 2 | August 17, 2018 23:45 | August 18, 2018 03:30 | 3h 45m | 1,884 | 1,133 |
| 3 | April 26, 2018 12:15 | April 26, 2018 17:30 | 5h 15m | 1,838 | 1,489 |
| 4 | January 1, 2018 22:45 | January 2, 2018 08:00 | 9h 15m | 1,780 | 7,021 |
| 5 | July 21, 2018 21:30 | July 24, 2018 04:45 | 2d 7h | 1,528 | 16K |
| 6 | May 14, 2018 12:00 | May 14, 2018 19:15 | 7h 15m | 1,201 | 535 |
| 7 | June 3, 2018 23:15 | June 5, 2018 04:00 | 1d 4h | 1,150 | 3,129 |
| 8 | July 4, 2018 02:30 | July 4, 2018 15:45 | 13h 15m | 875 | 7,750 |
| 9 | June 19, 2018 13:00 | June 19, 2018 19:30 | 6h 30m | 847 | 2,912 |
| 10 | June 14, 2018 18:15 | June 14, 2018 21:30 | 3h 15m | 838 | 430 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 64 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Russell 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 |
| 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 ÷ 21,728 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. Russell County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Russell 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/russell-county