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2021 Franklin County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Franklin County, AL went without power for an average of 9.3 hours, a total of 202K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.6 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 826th 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 Franklin 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 | February 15, 2021 17:15 | February 20, 2021 06:15 | 4d 13h | 4,842 | 179K |
| 2 | May 10, 2021 01:45 | May 10, 2021 09:15 | 7h 30m | 835 | 2,345 |
| 3 | March 28, 2021 08:00 | March 28, 2021 15:00 | 7h | 760 | 1,400 |
| 4 | March 18, 2021 01:45 | March 18, 2021 20:45 | 19h | 707 | 1,255 |
| 5 | February 21, 2021 13:30 | February 22, 2021 02:00 | 12h 30m | 681 | 1,591 |
| 6 | February 22, 2021 04:00 | February 22, 2021 04:15 | 15m | 676 | 169 |
| 7 | May 6, 2021 23:00 | May 7, 2021 09:15 | 10h 15m | 493 | 1,176 |
| 8 | March 22, 2021 11:45 | March 22, 2021 14:15 | 2h 30m | 448 | 795 |
| 9 | May 4, 2021 20:45 | May 5, 2021 12:30 | 15h 45m | 397 | 1,974 |
| 10 | February 20, 2021 16:30 | February 21, 2021 02:15 | 9h 45m | 339 | 854 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 24 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Franklin 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sheffield Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
| Franklin Electric Coop - (AL) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Russellville - (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 ÷ 21,671 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. Franklin County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county