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2017 Escambia County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Escambia County, AL went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 2,181 customer-hours (Alabama average 1.7 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2549th 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 Escambia 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 | December 7, 2017 21:15 | December 8, 2017 02:15 | 5h | 721 | 529 |
| 2 | October 23, 2017 13:45 | October 23, 2017 16:45 | 3h | 310 | 376 |
| 3 | December 20, 2017 21:45 | December 20, 2017 22:00 | 15m | 177 | 44 |
| 4 | October 24, 2017 17:00 | October 24, 2017 23:45 | 6h 45m | 143 | 181 |
| 5 | October 23, 2017 18:45 | October 23, 2017 19:00 | 15m | 81 | 20 |
| 6 | October 11, 2017 02:15 | October 11, 2017 11:45 | 9h 30m | 68 | 310 |
| 7 | May 1, 2017 03:00 | May 1, 2017 03:15 | 15m | 38 | 10 |
| 8 | May 1, 2017 04:00 | May 1, 2017 04:15 | 15m | 38 | 10 |
| 9 | May 1, 2017 06:00 | May 1, 2017 07:00 | 1h | 38 | 29 |
| 10 | May 1, 2017 08:45 | May 1, 2017 09:00 | 15m | 38 | 10 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 4 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Escambia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Covington Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 1.8 hrs | 1.81 | 68 min | 1.13 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southern Pine Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 18,593 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. Escambia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Escambia 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/escambia-county