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2021 Talladega County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Talladega County, AL went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 197K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.6 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1322nd 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 Talladega 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 | April 24, 2021 03:15 | April 26, 2021 06:30 | 2d 3h | 3,306 | 18K |
| 2 | August 17, 2021 06:45 | August 17, 2021 22:15 | 15h 30m | 2,320 | 851 |
| 3 | July 7, 2021 00:00 | July 7, 2021 16:45 | 16h 45m | 1,915 | 2,327 |
| 4 | May 4, 2021 16:30 | May 7, 2021 00:15 | 2d 7h | 1,801 | 23K |
| 5 | December 11, 2021 09:00 | December 12, 2021 03:15 | 18h 15m | 1,350 | 3,980 |
| 6 | March 31, 2021 14:15 | April 2, 2021 10:45 | 1d 20h | 1,322 | 5,586 |
| 7 | February 5, 2021 08:30 | February 5, 2021 15:00 | 6h 30m | 1,267 | 520 |
| 8 | August 31, 2021 00:30 | September 1, 2021 06:15 | 1d 5h | 1,133 | 9,812 |
| 9 | January 28, 2021 08:45 | January 28, 2021 21:15 | 12h 30m | 1,132 | 1,857 |
| 10 | November 14, 2021 03:15 | November 14, 2021 08:45 | 5h 30m | 1,094 | 5,244 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 118 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Talladega 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Alabama Electric Coop | 2021 | 6.7 hrs | - | 3.2 hrs | - |
| Coosa Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2021 | 5.1 hrs | 1.95 | 2.2 hrs | 1.58 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sylacauga Utilities Board | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 39,215 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. Talladega County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Talladega 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/talladega-county