Power Out Map
– 0% of Talladega out 0 customers out in Alabama

Power outage history

Talladega County Alabama

11hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

19th most of 60 in Alabama 1.7× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Zeta · Oct 29, 2020 79% of customers out · 90% back in 5.2 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 11h / yr State average 7.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 1.0 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 19hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 6.7days Hurricane Zeta, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 81% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 47 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 39,215 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Talladega's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 47 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Talladega, hours without power per customer

TalladegaUS median countyAlabama average
0 5 10 15 20 25 ’15 ’16 4.9 ’17 5.6 ’18 4.3 ’19 47 ’20 5.0 ’21 5.8 ’22 7.7 ’23 6.4 ’24 9.4 ’25 AL 7.0 US 6.6

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Oct 29, 2020 Hurricane Zeta 30,822 79% 6.7 d 5.2 d 1.6M
Dec 8, 2017 Winter storm 6,674 17% 2.2 d 45 h 157k
Feb 16, 2025 Thunderstorms 10,754 27% 36 h 19 h 84k
Jun 28, 2018 Thunderstorms 9,544 24% 31 h 24 h 81k
Jan 11, 2020 Thunderstorms 7,882 20% 31 h 28 h 77k
Oct 13, 2023 No storm report 1,095 3% 3.2 d – 66k
Mar 15, 2025 Thunderstorms 3,410 9% 28 h 25 h 41k
May 18, 2025 Thunderstorms 6,431 16% 13 h 11 h 40k
Jul 21, 2022 Thunderstorms 4,993 13% 19 h 17 h 39k
Apr 10, 2024 Windstorm 2,861 7% 18 h 19 h 23k
May 4, 2021 No storm report 1,801 5% 19 h – 21k
Jun 22, 2019 Thunderstorms 3,662 9% 16 h 14 h 20k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +6h 90% by +20h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Talladega from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Tropical storm 59%
  • Thunderstorms 20%
  • No storm on record 19%
  • Windstorm 1.9%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Talladega

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Alabama territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Alabama Power Co Investor Owned 410 108 2.06 17.9 1.3M
Sylacauga Utilities Board AL 113 – 1.50 10.1 76k
Central Alabama Electric Coop Cooperative 469 189 – 17.2 46k
Coosa Valley Electric Coop Inc Cooperative 345 209 2.43 16.9 16k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Alabama

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

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About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 39,215 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →