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2019 Russell County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Russell County, AL went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 97K customer-hours (Alabama average 3.2 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 66 Alabama counties and 1208th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Russell County, 2019
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 7, 2019 19:00 | June 9, 2019 00:45 | 1d 5h | 3,389 | 11K |
| 2 | May 9, 2019 18:00 | May 10, 2019 13:15 | 19h 15m | 3,127 | 6,875 |
| 3 | February 12, 2019 18:15 | February 13, 2019 09:00 | 14h 45m | 2,693 | 11K |
| 4 | October 6, 2019 20:30 | October 7, 2019 02:45 | 6h 15m | 1,908 | 7,324 |
| 5 | January 8, 2019 02:00 | January 8, 2019 04:15 | 2h 15m | 1,878 | 3,254 |
| 6 | January 23, 2019 14:45 | January 24, 2019 01:00 | 10h 15m | 1,393 | 2,443 |
| 7 | September 1, 2019 16:45 | September 1, 2019 23:45 | 7h | 1,372 | 1,258 |
| 8 | November 23, 2019 19:15 | November 23, 2019 23:45 | 4h 30m | 1,187 | 2,374 |
| 9 | December 11, 2019 23:45 | December 12, 2019 04:15 | 4h 30m | 1,173 | 1,934 |
| 10 | October 3, 2019 16:00 | October 3, 2019 18:30 | 2h 30m | 952 | 257 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 54 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 2019, 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 81% of Alabama's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/alabama/russell-county