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2023 Russell County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Russell County, AL went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 57K customer-hours (Alabama average 6.3 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2075th 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 Russell 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 | July 2, 2023 23:00 | July 3, 2023 09:45 | 10h 45m | 2,038 | 4,811 |
| 2 | July 22, 2023 01:30 | July 22, 2023 10:15 | 8h 45m | 1,955 | 6,565 |
| 3 | July 27, 2023 13:30 | July 27, 2023 16:15 | 2h 45m | 1,934 | 898 |
| 4 | January 12, 2023 00:00 | January 12, 2023 01:15 | 1h 15m | 1,187 | 1,001 |
| 5 | August 29, 2023 20:45 | August 30, 2023 02:00 | 5h 15m | 720 | 1,891 |
| 6 | June 21, 2023 18:00 | June 22, 2023 05:00 | 11h | 668 | 2,799 |
| 7 | October 21, 2023 13:45 | October 21, 2023 14:00 | 15m | 668 | 167 |
| 8 | July 30, 2023 19:00 | July 30, 2023 22:00 | 3h | 585 | 537 |
| 9 | August 6, 2023 18:15 | August 7, 2023 14:00 | 19h 45m | 556 | 1,709 |
| 10 | August 8, 2023 19:45 | August 9, 2023 14:45 | 19h | 548 | 2,000 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 61 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tallapoosa River Elec Coop Inc | 2023 | 5.5 hrs | 2.34 | - | - |
| 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 n/a of Alabama's customers in 2023; 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, 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/russell-county