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2018 Escambia County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Escambia County, AL went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 48K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1651st 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 Escambia 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 23:30 | June 29, 2018 20:45 | 21h 15m | 3,368 | 8,705 |
| 2 | November 30, 2018 07:45 | November 30, 2018 13:45 | 6h | 2,208 | 4,441 |
| 3 | April 12, 2018 20:30 | April 12, 2018 21:30 | 1h | 1,659 | 831 |
| 4 | May 14, 2018 11:45 | May 14, 2018 14:15 | 2h 30m | 1,532 | 790 |
| 5 | July 7, 2018 17:15 | July 7, 2018 22:30 | 5h 15m | 950 | 1,912 |
| 6 | February 26, 2018 19:00 | February 26, 2018 23:45 | 4h 45m | 938 | 553 |
| 7 | August 29, 2018 18:15 | August 29, 2018 21:45 | 3h 30m | 875 | 972 |
| 8 | July 15, 2018 23:30 | July 16, 2018 01:30 | 2h | 874 | 764 |
| 9 | August 18, 2018 14:15 | August 19, 2018 03:00 | 12h 45m | 703 | 547 |
| 10 | May 17, 2018 00:30 | May 17, 2018 01:15 | 45m | 692 | 519 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 55 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Covington Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.0 hrs | 1.76 | 60 min | 0.99 |
| 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 79% of Alabama's customers in 2018; 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, 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/escambia-county