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2020 Coffee County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Coffee County, AL went without power for an average of 6.7 hours, a total of 210K customer-hours (Alabama average 22.1 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1129th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Coffee County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 20, 2020 04:00 | April 24, 2020 22:00 | 4d 18h | 5,211 | 115K |
| 2 | April 12, 2020 22:00 | April 14, 2020 03:00 | 1d 5h | 3,416 | 25K |
| 3 | June 10, 2020 15:45 | June 10, 2020 17:45 | 2h | 2,937 | 2,940 |
| 4 | June 2, 2020 17:15 | June 2, 2020 17:30 | 15m | 2,235 | 559 |
| 5 | September 15, 2020 19:45 | September 17, 2020 23:45 | 2d 4h | 2,186 | 16K |
| 6 | February 23, 2020 12:45 | February 23, 2020 15:15 | 2h 30m | 1,653 | 4,131 |
| 7 | June 30, 2020 20:45 | July 1, 2020 03:00 | 6h 15m | 1,557 | 3,526 |
| 8 | December 7, 2020 05:00 | December 7, 2020 17:30 | 12h 30m | 1,554 | 2,763 |
| 9 | June 18, 2020 21:45 | June 18, 2020 22:45 | 1h | 1,484 | 1,116 |
| 10 | September 30, 2020 15:00 | September 30, 2020 23:00 | 8h | 1,263 | 2,363 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 55 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 2020, 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 | 2020 | 28.0 hrs | 3.72 | 3.1 hrs | 1.79 |
| Covington Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 12.5 hrs | 3.03 | 6.9 hrs | 2.05 |
| Wiregrass Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 19.8 hrs | 2.47 | 1.7 hrs | 1.13 |
| 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 81% of Alabama's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/alabama/coffee-county