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2020 Russell County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Russell County, AL went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 115K customer-hours (Alabama average 22.1 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1348th 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 Russell 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 | May 17, 2020 20:00 | May 17, 2020 22:15 | 2h 15m | 4,718 | 7,302 |
| 2 | June 5, 2020 21:45 | June 6, 2020 02:00 | 4h 15m | 2,460 | 2,661 |
| 3 | September 16, 2020 19:30 | September 18, 2020 20:45 | 2d 1h | 2,370 | 22K |
| 4 | November 29, 2020 06:45 | November 29, 2020 11:15 | 4h 30m | 2,226 | 3,383 |
| 5 | April 30, 2020 02:00 | April 30, 2020 03:30 | 1h 30m | 1,838 | 1,083 |
| 6 | April 13, 2020 03:45 | April 14, 2020 21:30 | 1d 17h | 1,521 | 17K |
| 7 | May 24, 2020 18:00 | May 25, 2020 01:00 | 7h | 1,195 | 1,287 |
| 8 | May 22, 2020 20:45 | May 23, 2020 02:00 | 5h 15m | 1,177 | 1,328 |
| 9 | January 21, 2020 08:00 | January 21, 2020 11:30 | 3h 30m | 996 | 2,768 |
| 10 | November 17, 2020 12:45 | November 18, 2020 00:15 | 11h 30m | 991 | 2,303 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 70 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 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 |
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/russell-county