County annual report · FIPS 01039
2015 Covington County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Covington County, AL went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Alabama average 0.5 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 30 Alabama counties and 2000th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Covington County, 2015
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 15, 2015 19:45 | September 15, 2015 20:15 | 30m | 1,880 | 563 |
| 2 | July 12, 2015 17:00 | July 12, 2015 18:00 | 1h | 813 | 813 |
| 3 | July 12, 2015 21:45 | July 12, 2015 22:15 | 30m | 813 | 407 |
| 4 | June 13, 2015 18:00 | June 13, 2015 22:00 | 4h | 812 | 595 |
| 5 | January 8, 2015 05:00 | January 8, 2015 07:00 | 2h | 723 | 1,446 |
| 6 | April 25, 2015 21:15 | April 26, 2015 08:45 | 11h 30m | 648 | 1,799 |
| 7 | December 13, 2015 05:15 | December 13, 2015 06:15 | 1h | 568 | 259 |
| 8 | September 28, 2015 13:00 | September 28, 2015 13:15 | 15m | 564 | 141 |
| 9 | July 20, 2015 00:15 | July 20, 2015 01:15 | 1h | 559 | 559 |
| 10 | August 21, 2015 12:45 | August 21, 2015 13:45 | 1h | 506 | 506 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 26 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Covington County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Covington Electric Coop, Inc | 2015 | 1.9 hrs | 1.20 | 78 min | 0.90 |
| Wiregrass Electric Coop, Inc | 2015 | 6.2 hrs | 1.86 | 1.8 hrs | 1.24 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pioneer Electric Coop, Inc - (AL) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southern Pine Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Andalusia | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Opp - (AL) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 30,321 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. Covington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Covington County, AL annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/alabama/covington-county