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2018 Coffee County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Coffee County, AL went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 97K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1484th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Coffee County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 22, 2018 05:30 | July 22, 2018 18:30 | 13h | 3,675 | 11K |
| 2 | May 10, 2018 11:15 | May 10, 2018 16:30 | 5h 15m | 3,547 | 13K |
| 3 | June 28, 2018 20:30 | June 29, 2018 08:30 | 12h | 2,343 | 4,817 |
| 4 | October 15, 2018 23:00 | October 16, 2018 03:00 | 4h | 1,743 | 2,103 |
| 5 | November 15, 2018 21:45 | November 16, 2018 03:15 | 5h 30m | 1,520 | 6,349 |
| 6 | August 28, 2018 20:00 | August 29, 2018 07:30 | 11h 30m | 1,501 | 420 |
| 7 | October 10, 2018 13:00 | October 12, 2018 20:00 | 2d 7h | 1,488 | 20K |
| 8 | June 25, 2018 22:30 | June 26, 2018 03:45 | 5h 15m | 1,407 | 1,469 |
| 9 | May 9, 2018 17:00 | May 9, 2018 20:00 | 3h | 1,280 | 364 |
| 10 | September 24, 2018 19:45 | September 25, 2018 01:45 | 6h | 1,162 | 1,207 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 54 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Coffee County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Alabama Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 4.2 hrs | 2.12 | 2.1 hrs | 1.41 |
| Covington Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.0 hrs | 1.76 | 60 min | 0.99 |
| Wiregrass Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 68.6 hrs | 3.56 | 1.8 hrs | 1.49 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pea River Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Elba - (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 79% of Alabama's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 31,347 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. Coffee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Coffee County, AL annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/alabama/coffee-county