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2020 Clay County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Clay County, AL went without power for an average of 75.9 hours, a total of 421K customer-hours (Alabama average 22.1 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 99th 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 Clay 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 08:30 | November 5, 2020 05:15 | 6d 20h | 5,175 | 333K |
| 2 | August 11, 2020 21:15 | August 12, 2020 05:30 | 8h 15m | 2,406 | 3,272 |
| 3 | June 21, 2020 18:15 | June 22, 2020 10:15 | 16h | 2,296 | 8,841 |
| 4 | June 21, 2020 13:30 | June 21, 2020 17:00 | 3h 30m | 1,668 | 3,971 |
| 5 | November 5, 2020 07:30 | November 5, 2020 11:00 | 3h 30m | 1,607 | 5,625 |
| 6 | January 11, 2020 19:45 | January 13, 2020 23:15 | 2d 3h | 1,330 | 21K |
| 7 | May 17, 2020 20:15 | May 17, 2020 21:45 | 1h 30m | 1,279 | 1,919 |
| 8 | May 22, 2020 21:30 | May 23, 2020 15:45 | 18h 15m | 975 | 2,537 |
| 9 | June 14, 2020 20:30 | June 15, 2020 01:30 | 5h | 948 | 2,673 |
| 10 | June 26, 2020 03:30 | June 26, 2020 20:15 | 16h 45m | 827 | 3,006 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 39 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 Clay 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tallapoosa River Elec Coop Inc | 2020 | 15.0 hrs | 2.90 | 5.4 hrs | 2.30 |
| Coosa Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 24.9 hrs | 3.50 | 2.7 hrs | 1.77 |
| 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 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,554 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. Clay County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/clay-county