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2020 Elmore County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Elmore County, AL went without power for an average of 33.1 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (Alabama average 22.1 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 247th 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 Elmore 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 05:00 | November 6, 2020 03:15 | 7d 22h | 28,606 | 948K |
| 2 | September 16, 2020 12:30 | September 19, 2020 09:30 | 2d 21h | 10,168 | 119K |
| 3 | April 12, 2020 21:15 | April 14, 2020 19:15 | 1d 22h | 7,748 | 45K |
| 4 | January 27, 2020 00:30 | January 27, 2020 05:30 | 5h | 7,017 | 18K |
| 5 | May 17, 2020 09:30 | May 17, 2020 21:45 | 12h 15m | 6,864 | 11K |
| 6 | February 18, 2020 12:30 | February 18, 2020 13:00 | 30m | 5,019 | 2,003 |
| 7 | January 11, 2020 18:00 | January 12, 2020 21:15 | 1d 3h | 2,912 | 14K |
| 8 | January 27, 2020 14:15 | January 27, 2020 17:30 | 3h 15m | 2,497 | 1,018 |
| 9 | May 7, 2020 14:15 | May 7, 2020 17:00 | 2h 45m | 2,326 | 599 |
| 10 | May 6, 2020 01:15 | May 6, 2020 02:15 | 1h | 2,322 | 1,946 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 122 reached 100+ customers, 24 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 Elmore 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Alabama Electric Coop | 2020 | 73.1 hrs | - | 3.4 hrs | - |
| 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 ÷ 38,649 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. Elmore County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elmore 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/elmore-county