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2023 Tallapoosa County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Tallapoosa County, AL went without power for an average of 19.5 hours, a total of 430K customer-hours (Alabama average 6.3 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 418th 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 Tallapoosa 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 | January 12, 2023 11:45 | January 15, 2023 00:15 | 2d 12h | 9,619 | 193K |
| 2 | March 14, 2023 14:15 | March 14, 2023 17:30 | 3h 15m | 8,391 | 3,085 |
| 3 | January 4, 2023 05:45 | January 8, 2023 01:00 | 3d 19h | 4,826 | 40K |
| 4 | August 3, 2023 17:45 | August 5, 2023 02:00 | 1d 8h | 4,247 | 24K |
| 5 | August 11, 2023 11:45 | August 12, 2023 11:45 | 1d | 2,726 | 20K |
| 6 | March 26, 2023 08:00 | March 28, 2023 09:00 | 2d 1h | 2,338 | 27K |
| 7 | June 17, 2023 00:15 | June 18, 2023 00:15 | 1d | 1,629 | 8,440 |
| 8 | July 14, 2023 07:00 | July 14, 2023 11:30 | 4h 30m | 1,587 | 5,221 |
| 9 | November 21, 2023 07:30 | November 21, 2023 23:15 | 15h 45m | 1,565 | 7,211 |
| 10 | August 6, 2023 19:45 | August 7, 2023 08:15 | 12h 30m | 1,549 | 8,919 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 103 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Alabama Electric Coop | 2023 | 9.5 hrs | - | 4.7 hrs | - |
| Dixie Electric Coop - (AL) | 2023 | 4.9 hrs | 1.70 | 3.0 hrs | 1.41 |
| Tallapoosa River Elec Coop Inc | 2023 | 5.5 hrs | 2.34 | - | - |
| 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 n/a of Alabama's customers in 2023; 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, 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/tallapoosa-county