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2021 Tallapoosa County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Tallapoosa County, AL went without power for an average of 9.0 hours, a total of 199K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.6 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 850th 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 Tallapoosa 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 4, 2021 17:45 | May 6, 2021 22:15 | 2d 4h | 7,606 | 115K |
| 2 | May 10, 2021 07:45 | May 10, 2021 21:45 | 14h | 2,298 | 3,068 |
| 3 | July 31, 2021 21:15 | August 1, 2021 08:45 | 11h 30m | 1,845 | 5,102 |
| 4 | July 9, 2021 19:00 | July 10, 2021 05:45 | 10h 45m | 1,356 | 3,308 |
| 5 | August 25, 2021 03:00 | August 25, 2021 04:45 | 1h 45m | 1,182 | 890 |
| 6 | November 11, 2021 12:30 | November 11, 2021 15:30 | 3h | 1,134 | 295 |
| 7 | July 14, 2021 22:45 | July 15, 2021 04:30 | 5h 45m | 1,100 | 297 |
| 8 | October 28, 2021 07:45 | October 28, 2021 13:45 | 6h | 1,074 | 2,114 |
| 9 | December 29, 2021 11:30 | December 29, 2021 14:15 | 2h 45m | 911 | 1,371 |
| 10 | April 25, 2021 15:00 | April 26, 2021 01:30 | 10h 30m | 904 | 1,825 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 77 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Tallapoosa 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 | - |
| Dixie Electric Coop - (AL) | 2021 | 5.2 hrs | 1.75 | 2.0 hrs | 1.32 |
| Tallapoosa River Elec Coop Inc | 2021 | 4.9 hrs | 2.12 | 3.8 hrs | 1.79 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Alexander City | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 22,039 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. Tallapoosa County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Tallapoosa 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/tallapoosa-county