County annual report · FIPS 01039
2020 Covington County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Covington County, AL went without power for an average of 9.2 hours, a total of 280K customer-hours (Alabama average 22.1 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 65 Alabama counties and 851st 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 Covington 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 03:30 | April 23, 2020 00:45 | 2d 21h | 7,212 | 153K |
| 2 | September 16, 2020 03:45 | September 19, 2020 00:45 | 2d 21h | 3,670 | 68K |
| 3 | April 12, 2020 17:30 | April 13, 2020 17:45 | 1d | 1,859 | 5,763 |
| 4 | October 29, 2020 02:45 | October 29, 2020 23:30 | 20h 45m | 1,445 | 14K |
| 5 | January 11, 2020 19:15 | January 12, 2020 06:45 | 11h 30m | 1,408 | 2,446 |
| 6 | October 11, 2020 02:00 | October 11, 2020 06:15 | 4h 15m | 1,292 | 3,878 |
| 7 | July 10, 2020 05:45 | July 10, 2020 13:15 | 7h 30m | 1,233 | 3,647 |
| 8 | July 12, 2020 22:45 | July 13, 2020 08:15 | 9h 30m | 1,145 | 1,976 |
| 9 | February 6, 2020 08:00 | February 6, 2020 19:45 | 11h 45m | 1,044 | 1,936 |
| 10 | April 23, 2020 12:45 | April 24, 2020 06:45 | 18h | 983 | 7,459 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 49 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pioneer Electric Coop, Inc - (AL) | 2018 | 8.3 hrs | 3.01 | 3.7 hrs | 2.37 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2020; 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, 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/covington-county