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2024 Russell County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Russell County, AL went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 78K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 66 Alabama counties and 1953rd of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Russell County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 27, 2024 04:15 | September 28, 2024 02:00 | 21h 45m | 2,370 | 1,946 |
| 2 | January 9, 2024 04:45 | January 10, 2024 09:00 | 1d 4h | 2,342 | 12K |
| 3 | August 18, 2024 22:15 | August 19, 2024 21:15 | 23h | 2,085 | 12K |
| 4 | November 7, 2024 13:30 | November 7, 2024 18:30 | 5h | 1,805 | 470 |
| 5 | April 11, 2024 01:15 | April 12, 2024 07:15 | 1d 6h | 1,789 | 11K |
| 6 | June 6, 2024 20:00 | June 6, 2024 22:15 | 2h 15m | 1,724 | 653 |
| 7 | July 20, 2024 17:45 | July 20, 2024 23:00 | 5h 15m | 724 | 663 |
| 8 | February 11, 2024 22:45 | February 12, 2024 07:00 | 8h 15m | 598 | 1,084 |
| 9 | August 4, 2024 16:30 | August 4, 2024 19:15 | 2h 45m | 527 | 402 |
| 10 | May 10, 2024 03:30 | May 10, 2024 20:45 | 17h 15m | 470 | 1,810 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 53 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 2024, 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 | 2024 | 6.3 hrs | 2.26 | 4.1 hrs | 1.92 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/alabama/russell-county