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2018 Talladega County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Talladega County, AL went without power for an average of 5.7 hours, a total of 222K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 953rd 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 Talladega 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 17:30 | July 2, 2018 22:45 | 4d 5h | 9,544 | 91K |
| 2 | May 14, 2018 06:00 | May 14, 2018 20:30 | 14h 30m | 4,621 | 4,151 |
| 3 | October 27, 2018 08:30 | October 27, 2018 10:30 | 2h | 2,515 | 4,005 |
| 4 | September 23, 2018 05:15 | September 23, 2018 07:45 | 2h 30m | 1,711 | 2,997 |
| 5 | November 6, 2018 03:00 | November 6, 2018 21:15 | 18h 15m | 1,653 | 1,825 |
| 6 | May 28, 2018 22:45 | May 31, 2018 05:30 | 2d 6h | 1,396 | 5,049 |
| 7 | September 24, 2018 18:15 | September 26, 2018 04:30 | 1d 10h | 1,346 | 4,678 |
| 8 | September 3, 2018 04:30 | September 3, 2018 07:15 | 2h 45m | 1,199 | 609 |
| 9 | October 2, 2018 12:30 | October 2, 2018 22:45 | 10h 15m | 1,104 | 329 |
| 10 | December 14, 2018 19:00 | December 15, 2018 02:00 | 7h | 1,102 | 1,518 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 103 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Talladega 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 | - |
| Coosa Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 3.9 hrs | 1.76 | 1.8 hrs | 1.01 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sylacauga Utilities 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 ÷ 39,215 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. Talladega County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Talladega 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/talladega-county