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2021 Clay County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Clay County, AL went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.6 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1308th 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 Clay 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 | August 15, 2021 08:45 | August 15, 2021 10:45 | 2h | 768 | 1,179 |
| 2 | April 4, 2021 12:00 | April 4, 2021 16:00 | 4h | 649 | 602 |
| 3 | May 4, 2021 17:45 | May 5, 2021 04:30 | 10h 45m | 562 | 1,883 |
| 4 | May 24, 2021 19:30 | May 24, 2021 23:00 | 3h 30m | 539 | 1,555 |
| 5 | August 11, 2021 16:45 | August 12, 2021 00:45 | 8h | 538 | 1,689 |
| 6 | July 23, 2021 12:45 | July 23, 2021 14:45 | 2h | 516 | 703 |
| 7 | May 19, 2021 13:45 | May 19, 2021 14:45 | 1h | 339 | 339 |
| 8 | December 13, 2021 06:15 | December 13, 2021 10:45 | 4h 30m | 282 | 1,008 |
| 9 | August 31, 2021 06:45 | August 31, 2021 23:00 | 16h 15m | 266 | 1,400 |
| 10 | May 8, 2021 13:15 | May 8, 2021 14:30 | 1h 15m | 258 | 323 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 24 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 Clay 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tallapoosa River Elec Coop Inc | 2021 | 4.9 hrs | 2.12 | 3.8 hrs | 1.79 |
| Coosa Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2021 | 5.1 hrs | 1.95 | 2.2 hrs | 1.58 |
| 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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,554 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. Clay County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2021/alabama/clay-county