County annual report · FIPS 01039
2017 Covington County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Covington County, AL went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Alabama average 1.7 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2207th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Covington County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 3, 2017 13:45 | April 4, 2017 01:30 | 11h 45m | 1,383 | 4,872 |
| 2 | October 8, 2017 08:45 | October 8, 2017 18:30 | 9h 45m | 1,304 | 3,670 |
| 3 | June 12, 2017 01:15 | June 12, 2017 04:00 | 2h 45m | 805 | 1,208 |
| 4 | June 21, 2017 07:30 | June 21, 2017 10:00 | 2h 30m | 555 | 698 |
| 5 | April 26, 2017 19:45 | April 26, 2017 20:30 | 45m | 440 | 330 |
| 6 | May 1, 2017 03:00 | May 1, 2017 17:00 | 14h | 405 | 1,316 |
| 7 | August 27, 2017 19:45 | August 27, 2017 20:15 | 30m | 303 | 113 |
| 8 | June 21, 2017 11:00 | June 21, 2017 17:45 | 6h 45m | 233 | 719 |
| 9 | June 18, 2017 18:30 | June 18, 2017 20:45 | 2h 15m | 219 | 410 |
| 10 | December 14, 2017 16:45 | December 14, 2017 22:15 | 5h 30m | 204 | 440 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 17 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 2017, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pioneer Electric Coop, Inc - (AL) | 2017 | 8.2 hrs | 3.44 | 6.0 hrs | 2.91 |
| Covington Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 1.8 hrs | 1.81 | 68 min | 1.13 |
| Wiregrass Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 2.7 hrs | 1.37 | 77 min | 0.93 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/alabama/covington-county