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2018 Tallapoosa County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Tallapoosa County, AL went without power for an average of 5.5 hours, a total of 121K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 65 Alabama counties and 980th 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 Tallapoosa 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 19:30 | June 30, 2018 11:45 | 1d 16h | 6,318 | 48K |
| 2 | August 3, 2018 22:15 | August 4, 2018 02:00 | 3h 45m | 3,310 | 1,411 |
| 3 | July 18, 2018 12:15 | July 18, 2018 23:00 | 10h 45m | 1,838 | 811 |
| 4 | November 24, 2018 01:00 | November 24, 2018 08:15 | 7h 15m | 1,320 | 7,131 |
| 5 | October 10, 2018 21:30 | October 11, 2018 08:15 | 10h 45m | 1,094 | 905 |
| 6 | July 16, 2018 23:15 | July 17, 2018 21:15 | 22h | 1,057 | 354 |
| 7 | September 15, 2018 12:30 | September 15, 2018 15:45 | 3h 15m | 1,057 | 932 |
| 8 | July 26, 2018 11:30 | July 26, 2018 14:45 | 3h 15m | 921 | 698 |
| 9 | May 29, 2018 04:45 | May 29, 2018 21:30 | 16h 45m | 805 | 2,002 |
| 10 | September 1, 2018 20:45 | September 1, 2018 23:30 | 2h 45m | 786 | 677 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 80 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 Tallapoosa 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 | - |
| Dixie Electric Coop - (AL) | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 1.60 | 2.6 hrs | 1.48 |
| Tallapoosa River Elec Coop Inc | 2018 | 6.4 hrs | 2.39 | 6.4 hrs | 2.39 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Alexander City | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 22,039 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. Tallapoosa County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Tallapoosa 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/tallapoosa-county