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2020 Etowah County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Etowah County, AL went without power for an average of 10.2 hours, a total of 554K customer-hours (Alabama average 22.1 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 774th 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 Etowah 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 | April 12, 2020 22:30 | April 16, 2020 07:00 | 3d 8h | 10,441 | 178K |
| 2 | October 29, 2020 10:00 | November 1, 2020 23:00 | 3d 13h | 10,191 | 189K |
| 3 | May 17, 2020 16:00 | May 18, 2020 01:00 | 9h | 4,889 | 7,460 |
| 4 | July 29, 2020 00:30 | July 30, 2020 02:00 | 1d 1h | 3,550 | 1,504 |
| 5 | January 11, 2020 13:15 | January 13, 2020 23:45 | 2d 10h | 2,947 | 40K |
| 6 | April 9, 2020 07:30 | April 9, 2020 16:45 | 9h 15m | 1,735 | 7,220 |
| 7 | May 27, 2020 15:00 | May 28, 2020 08:30 | 17h 30m | 1,716 | 2,572 |
| 8 | August 6, 2020 18:15 | August 7, 2020 03:15 | 9h | 1,681 | 1,298 |
| 9 | July 1, 2020 12:30 | July 1, 2020 15:45 | 3h 15m | 1,606 | 977 |
| 10 | December 24, 2020 07:45 | December 25, 2020 04:15 | 20h 30m | 1,515 | 2,605 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 111 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Etowah 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) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Marshall-De Kalb Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 54,206 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. Etowah County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Etowah 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/etowah-county