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2023 Cullman County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Cullman County, AL went without power for an average of 12.0 hours, a total of 711K customer-hours (Alabama average 6.3 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 714th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cullman County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 3, 2023 15:00 | March 7, 2023 00:00 | 3d 9h | 15,511 | 262K |
| 2 | August 6, 2023 18:15 | August 11, 2023 17:30 | 4d 23h | 14,739 | 150K |
| 3 | June 19, 2023 04:45 | June 19, 2023 07:45 | 3h | 12,503 | 19K |
| 4 | August 27, 2023 05:15 | August 27, 2023 07:15 | 2h | 5,990 | 12K |
| 5 | August 3, 2023 17:30 | August 5, 2023 09:45 | 1d 16h | 5,648 | 33K |
| 6 | December 12, 2023 04:15 | December 12, 2023 08:15 | 4h | 4,509 | 14K |
| 7 | July 21, 2023 19:45 | July 22, 2023 17:45 | 22h | 4,266 | 18K |
| 8 | May 13, 2023 12:30 | May 13, 2023 16:45 | 4h 15m | 4,051 | 4,347 |
| 9 | June 2, 2023 13:30 | June 2, 2023 15:30 | 2h | 3,880 | 4,508 |
| 10 | June 9, 2023 16:45 | June 9, 2023 21:30 | 4h 45m | 3,706 | 1,505 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 110 reached 100+ customers, 29 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Cullman County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cullman Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 19.3 hrs | 4.78 | 9.4 hrs | 3.29 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Arab Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cullman Power 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 n/a of Alabama's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 59,296 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. Cullman County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cullman County, AL annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/alabama/cullman-county