When will the power be back in Russell County, AL?
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No significant county-wide outage reported in Russell County, AL right now.
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Elsewhere in Alabama: 5,438 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 12:16 AM EDT.
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Who serves Russell County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Alabama Power, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Russell County, AL
Last significant outage: Oct 9, 2026 — peaked at 1,931 customers, restored in ~19.5 hr (tropical storm).
Across the 5 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 4.5 hr (median).
Every outage behind these figures (5)
| Began | Peak out | Restored in | Weather |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 2026 | 1,931 | ~19.5 hr | tropical storm |
| Oct 6, 2026 | 331 | ~3.5 hr | no severe weather |
| Sep 22, 2026 | 416 | ~4.5 hr | weather alert |
| Aug 24, 2026 | 825 | ~2.7 hr | no severe weather |
| Aug 9, 2026 | 479 | ~5 hr | no severe weather |
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 9, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Russell County, AL
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
337 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~2 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in spring.
That is shorter than the Alabama norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.5 hr.
Largest on record: ~4,718 customers out in May 2020, restored after about 1.8 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2020.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025, replayed through the same event rules as our tracking archive above with two differences: outages shorter than
half an hour count here, and a reading above twice the county's customers or households is capped. They cover a far longer period
than we have been tracking — a different set of outages, so the two typical times differ. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Cities with their own pages in Russell County
Communities in Russell County include Phenix City, Hurtsboro, Cottonton-Seale, Crawford and Ladonia. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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