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2020 Talladega County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Talladega County, AL went without power for an average of 46.8 hours, a total of 1.8M customer-hours (Alabama average 22.1 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 179th 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 Talladega 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 02:30 | November 11, 2020 02:00 | 12d 23h | 30,822 | 1.6M |
| 2 | January 11, 2020 05:00 | January 14, 2020 02:45 | 2d 21h | 7,882 | 82K |
| 3 | September 19, 2020 12:30 | September 19, 2020 18:15 | 5h 45m | 2,667 | 4,950 |
| 4 | August 10, 2020 11:30 | August 12, 2020 15:15 | 2d 3h | 1,788 | 8,764 |
| 5 | April 23, 2020 08:45 | April 24, 2020 18:30 | 1d 9h | 1,627 | 7,768 |
| 6 | July 12, 2020 18:00 | July 13, 2020 08:30 | 14h 30m | 1,409 | 5,199 |
| 7 | November 19, 2020 14:00 | November 19, 2020 17:45 | 3h 45m | 1,275 | 1,585 |
| 8 | November 25, 2020 12:15 | November 26, 2020 04:15 | 16h | 1,261 | 1,727 |
| 9 | December 3, 2020 14:15 | December 3, 2020 18:15 | 4h | 1,216 | 1,593 |
| 10 | May 1, 2020 16:15 | May 1, 2020 20:30 | 4h 15m | 1,212 | 392 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 125 reached 100+ customers, 23 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Talladega 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 | - |
| Coosa Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 24.9 hrs | 3.50 | 2.7 hrs | 1.77 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sylacauga Utilities Board | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 39,215 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. Talladega County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Talladega 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/talladega-county