County annual report · FIPS 01039
2018 Covington County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Covington County, AL went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 38K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2207th 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 Covington 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 | June 28, 2018 23:00 | June 29, 2018 20:00 | 21h | 2,324 | 7,132 |
| 2 | October 10, 2018 16:15 | October 11, 2018 17:15 | 1d 1h | 2,092 | 3,045 |
| 3 | July 7, 2018 19:00 | July 7, 2018 22:45 | 3h 45m | 1,444 | 1,452 |
| 4 | April 15, 2018 11:15 | April 15, 2018 13:45 | 2h 30m | 867 | 1,056 |
| 5 | June 9, 2018 20:45 | June 9, 2018 23:30 | 2h 45m | 801 | 1,202 |
| 6 | December 27, 2018 17:00 | December 27, 2018 17:30 | 30m | 710 | 178 |
| 7 | December 6, 2018 09:00 | December 6, 2018 12:30 | 3h 30m | 680 | 1,552 |
| 8 | May 1, 2018 12:30 | May 1, 2018 17:15 | 4h 45m | 668 | 372 |
| 9 | September 18, 2018 20:15 | September 18, 2018 21:45 | 1h 30m | 628 | 626 |
| 10 | May 16, 2018 13:00 | May 16, 2018 14:30 | 1h 30m | 572 | 534 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 43 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pioneer Electric Coop, Inc - (AL) | 2018 | 8.3 hrs | 3.01 | 3.7 hrs | 2.37 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 79% of Alabama's customers in 2018; 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, 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/covington-county