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2023 Etowah County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Etowah County, AL went without power for an average of 9.8 hours, a total of 531K customer-hours (Alabama average 6.3 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 65 Alabama counties and 860th 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 Etowah 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 | August 3, 2023 13:30 | August 6, 2023 05:00 | 2d 15h | 12,692 | 178K |
| 2 | March 3, 2023 13:15 | March 5, 2023 05:45 | 1d 16h | 6,131 | 72K |
| 3 | July 20, 2023 13:30 | July 23, 2023 04:45 | 2d 15h | 5,846 | 36K |
| 4 | July 2, 2023 12:00 | July 4, 2023 13:00 | 2d 1h | 5,762 | 40K |
| 5 | September 15, 2023 11:15 | September 15, 2023 19:45 | 8h 30m | 4,271 | 1,119 |
| 6 | July 18, 2023 12:15 | July 19, 2023 22:00 | 1d 9h | 2,722 | 12K |
| 7 | August 7, 2023 11:45 | August 9, 2023 02:15 | 1d 14h | 2,315 | 12K |
| 8 | August 10, 2023 08:45 | August 11, 2023 23:15 | 1d 14h | 1,999 | 15K |
| 9 | January 12, 2023 14:00 | January 13, 2023 03:45 | 13h 45m | 1,969 | 5,972 |
| 10 | October 5, 2023 14:45 | October 6, 2023 05:15 | 14h 30m | 1,939 | 1,973 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 118 reached 100+ customers, 27 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Etowah 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coosa Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2023 | 3.0 hrs | 1.50 | 3.0 hrs | 1.50 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cherokee Electric Coop - (AL) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Marshall-De Kalb Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 54,206 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. Etowah County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Etowah 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/etowah-county