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2021 Russell County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Russell County, AL went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 66K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.6 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1833rd 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 Russell 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 | May 5, 2021 00:45 | May 6, 2021 20:00 | 1d 19h | 2,694 | 22K |
| 2 | March 24, 2021 21:00 | March 25, 2021 01:45 | 4h 45m | 2,144 | 1,089 |
| 3 | June 15, 2021 02:30 | June 15, 2021 07:00 | 4h 30m | 1,010 | 2,326 |
| 4 | February 22, 2021 13:00 | February 22, 2021 15:00 | 2h | 914 | 236 |
| 5 | November 22, 2021 14:15 | November 22, 2021 19:00 | 4h 45m | 819 | 279 |
| 6 | August 1, 2021 23:00 | August 2, 2021 02:45 | 3h 45m | 797 | 479 |
| 7 | August 17, 2021 03:15 | August 17, 2021 16:45 | 13h 30m | 769 | 4,175 |
| 8 | April 3, 2021 22:15 | April 4, 2021 03:15 | 5h | 735 | 1,595 |
| 9 | May 29, 2021 13:45 | May 29, 2021 16:15 | 2h 30m | 689 | 382 |
| 10 | June 19, 2021 21:15 | June 20, 2021 20:15 | 23h | 579 | 2,565 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 52 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Russell 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 |
| 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 ÷ 21,728 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. Russell County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Russell 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/russell-county