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2021 Cherokee County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Cherokee County, AL went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 398 customer-hours (Alabama average 4.6 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2953rd of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cherokee County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 1, 2021 05:30 | September 1, 2021 07:30 | 2h | 41 | 82 |
| 2 | October 25, 2021 19:30 | October 25, 2021 22:00 | 2h 30m | 9 | 10 |
| 3 | March 8, 2021 19:15 | March 9, 2021 00:15 | 5h | 8 | 40 |
| 4 | March 17, 2021 18:15 | March 17, 2021 18:30 | 15m | 6 | 2 |
| 5 | March 25, 2021 20:30 | March 25, 2021 21:00 | 30m | 5 | 3 |
| 6 | January 4, 2021 11:45 | January 4, 2021 12:15 | 30m | 4 | 2 |
| 7 | January 6, 2021 18:45 | January 6, 2021 20:45 | 2h | 4 | 8 |
| 8 | January 22, 2021 13:00 | January 22, 2021 13:30 | 30m | 4 | 2 |
| 9 | January 26, 2021 08:00 | January 26, 2021 11:00 | 3h | 4 | 12 |
| 10 | March 8, 2021 17:00 | March 8, 2021 18:00 | 1h | 4 | 4 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 0 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Cherokee County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cherokee Electric Coop - (AL) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 24,534 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. Cherokee County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cherokee County, AL annual power outage report, 2021, 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2021/alabama/cherokee-county