County annual report · FIPS 01039
2019 Covington County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Covington County, AL went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 28K customer-hours (Alabama average 3.2 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 66 Alabama counties and 2532nd of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Covington County, 2019
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 18, 2019 05:15 | July 18, 2019 07:45 | 2h 30m | 2,400 | 4,800 |
| 2 | August 14, 2019 19:30 | August 14, 2019 22:15 | 2h 45m | 1,306 | 2,477 |
| 3 | March 26, 2019 15:45 | March 26, 2019 20:15 | 4h 30m | 836 | 1,274 |
| 4 | June 4, 2019 12:00 | June 4, 2019 12:45 | 45m | 704 | 353 |
| 5 | August 25, 2019 19:15 | August 25, 2019 23:00 | 3h 45m | 643 | 873 |
| 6 | October 18, 2019 12:15 | October 18, 2019 14:15 | 2h | 576 | 964 |
| 7 | July 29, 2019 13:30 | July 29, 2019 14:15 | 45m | 563 | 143 |
| 8 | July 13, 2019 01:30 | July 13, 2019 04:45 | 3h 15m | 552 | 556 |
| 9 | October 31, 2019 14:30 | October 31, 2019 17:30 | 3h | 489 | 331 |
| 10 | January 19, 2019 22:30 | January 20, 2019 03:15 | 4h 45m | 475 | 625 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 39 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 2019, 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 81% of Alabama's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/alabama/covington-county