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

Power outage history

Tallapoosa County Alabama

14hours

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

16th most of 60 in Alabama 2.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Zeta · Oct 29, 2020 70% of customers out · 90% back in 3.0 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 14h / yr State average 7.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.0 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 11hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 4.6days 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 41 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 22,039 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 Tallapoosa'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 41 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Tallapoosa, hours without power per customer

TallapoosaUS median countyAlabama average
0 10 20 30 40 50 ’15 ’16 3.3 ’17 5.4 ’18 5.1 ’19 41 ’20 8.9 ’21 6.2 ’22 19 ’23 13 ’24 14 ’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 15,368 70% 4.6 d 3.0 d 535k
Jan 12, 2023 Thunderstorms 9,619 44% 44 h 34 h 192k
Apr 19, 2020 Thunderstorms 11,146 51% 2.3 d 38 h 166k
Feb 16, 2025 Tornadoes 7,884 36% 38 h 30 h 131k
May 4, 2021 Thunderstorms 7,606 35% 41 h 9.0 h 114k
May 9, 2024 Thunderstorms 5,614 25% 41 h 37 h 85k
Dec 8, 2017 Winter storm 4,017 18% 45 h 26 h 63k
Mar 15, 2025 Tornadoes 3,341 15% 25 h 15 h 50k
Aug 18, 2024 Thunderstorms 5,214 24% 22 h 17 h 48k
Jun 28, 2018 Thunderstorms 6,318 29% 26 h 21 h 47k
Jan 4, 2023 Tornadoes 4,826 22% 17 h 10 h 38k
Sep 16, 2020 Hurricane Sally 2,944 13% 23 h 14 h 33k

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 +8h 90% by +24h

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 Tallapoosa from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Thunderstorms 41%
  • Tropical storm 28%
  • No storm on record 19%
  • Tornadoes 10%
  • Windstorm 1.0%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Tallapoosa

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
City of Alexander City AL – – – 10.7 56k
Central Alabama Electric Coop Cooperative 469 189 – 17.2 46k
Tallapoosa River Elec Coop Inc Cooperative 567 268 3.06 14.8 30k
Dixie Electric Coop Cooperative 258 118 2.04 15.4 22k

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+

All Alabama counties →

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 22,039 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 →