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2020 Calhoun County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Calhoun County, AL went without power for an average of 36.0 hours, a total of 2.2M customer-hours (Alabama average 22.1 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 224th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Calhoun County, 2020
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 29, 2020 07:00 | November 7, 2020 04:00 | 8d 21h | 30,458 | 1.8M |
| 2 | April 23, 2020 05:15 | April 25, 2020 05:00 | 1d 23h | 14,038 | 141K |
| 3 | January 11, 2020 08:45 | January 15, 2020 01:15 | 3d 16h | 8,879 | 136K |
| 4 | May 17, 2020 11:45 | May 18, 2020 00:00 | 12h 15m | 6,586 | 10K |
| 5 | April 12, 2020 20:00 | April 14, 2020 04:15 | 1d 8h | 3,245 | 28K |
| 6 | March 19, 2020 00:00 | March 19, 2020 23:30 | 23h 30m | 2,461 | 3,414 |
| 7 | March 25, 2020 01:45 | March 25, 2020 20:15 | 18h 30m | 2,381 | 5,375 |
| 8 | September 2, 2020 06:45 | September 2, 2020 10:45 | 4h | 2,058 | 4,033 |
| 9 | June 26, 2020 03:15 | June 27, 2020 01:15 | 22h | 1,921 | 4,937 |
| 10 | September 16, 2020 13:30 | September 17, 2020 23:45 | 1d 10h | 1,750 | 6,512 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 127 reached 100+ customers, 12 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Calhoun County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coosa Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 24.9 hrs | 3.50 | 2.7 hrs | 1.77 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cherokee Electric Coop - (AL) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Piedmont - (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 81% of Alabama's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 62,182 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. Calhoun County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Calhoun County, AL annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/alabama/calhoun-county