County annual report · FIPS 01039
2016 Covington County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Covington County, AL went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 31K customer-hours (Alabama average 0.7 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 29 Alabama counties and 1759th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Covington County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 15, 2016 23:00 | February 16, 2016 21:30 | 22h 30m | 1,585 | 8,307 |
| 2 | March 24, 2016 19:45 | March 25, 2016 03:00 | 7h 15m | 1,199 | 2,325 |
| 3 | June 17, 2016 23:15 | June 18, 2016 11:45 | 12h 30m | 1,164 | 6,582 |
| 4 | June 16, 2016 17:30 | June 16, 2016 20:15 | 2h 45m | 807 | 2,196 |
| 5 | November 4, 2016 19:30 | November 4, 2016 21:30 | 2h | 736 | 833 |
| 6 | November 7, 2016 15:30 | November 7, 2016 15:45 | 15m | 736 | 184 |
| 7 | February 17, 2016 20:00 | February 17, 2016 21:30 | 1h 30m | 562 | 286 |
| 8 | January 6, 2016 14:45 | January 6, 2016 16:15 | 1h 30m | 512 | 768 |
| 9 | August 8, 2016 00:45 | August 8, 2016 05:30 | 4h 45m | 459 | 529 |
| 10 | July 19, 2016 11:30 | July 19, 2016 12:00 | 30m | 441 | 220 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 28 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 2016, 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 | 2016 | 2.4 hrs | 1.50 | 55 min | 0.90 |
| Wiregrass Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 2.5 hrs | 1.38 | 1.8 hrs | 1.22 |
| 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/alabama/covington-county