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2020 Tallapoosa County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Tallapoosa County, AL went without power for an average of 41.4 hours, a total of 913K customer-hours (Alabama average 22.1 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 197th 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 Tallapoosa 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 10:15 | 8d 5h | 15,368 | 539K |
| 2 | April 19, 2020 11:15 | April 22, 2020 05:45 | 2d 18h | 11,146 | 168K |
| 3 | January 11, 2020 16:45 | January 12, 2020 18:45 | 1d 2h | 10,385 | 26K |
| 4 | August 12, 2020 17:15 | August 12, 2020 17:45 | 30m | 8,937 | 2,235 |
| 5 | August 10, 2020 22:15 | August 12, 2020 10:00 | 1d 11h | 6,982 | 20K |
| 6 | September 16, 2020 17:45 | September 18, 2020 05:00 | 1d 11h | 2,944 | 34K |
| 7 | May 17, 2020 20:00 | May 17, 2020 22:00 | 2h | 2,458 | 3,749 |
| 8 | April 13, 2020 00:30 | April 14, 2020 01:30 | 1d 1h | 2,184 | 25K |
| 9 | February 6, 2020 12:15 | February 7, 2020 00:00 | 11h 45m | 1,624 | 2,703 |
| 10 | January 16, 2020 18:00 | January 16, 2020 22:00 | 4h | 1,608 | 451 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 90 reached 100+ customers, 21 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Tallapoosa 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 | - |
| Dixie Electric Coop - (AL) | 2020 | 5.4 hrs | 2.55 | 2.5 hrs | 2.12 |
| Tallapoosa River Elec Coop Inc | 2020 | 15.0 hrs | 2.90 | 5.4 hrs | 2.30 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Alexander City | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 22,039 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. Tallapoosa County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Tallapoosa 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/tallapoosa-county