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2020 Escambia County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Escambia County, AL went without power for an average of 31.1 hours, a total of 578K customer-hours (Alabama average 22.1 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 265th 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 Escambia 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 | September 15, 2020 22:45 | September 25, 2020 12:00 | 9d 13h | 9,643 | 385K |
| 2 | October 29, 2020 02:00 | November 1, 2020 20:30 | 3d 18h | 6,027 | 124K |
| 3 | April 23, 2020 13:00 | April 24, 2020 01:15 | 12h 15m | 3,898 | 20K |
| 4 | August 25, 2020 04:45 | August 25, 2020 05:00 | 15m | 2,781 | 695 |
| 5 | January 11, 2020 18:00 | January 11, 2020 18:45 | 45m | 2,232 | 1,120 |
| 6 | March 4, 2020 14:15 | March 5, 2020 04:30 | 14h 15m | 1,743 | 12K |
| 7 | November 5, 2020 17:00 | November 6, 2020 00:30 | 7h 30m | 925 | 739 |
| 8 | April 12, 2020 19:15 | April 12, 2020 23:15 | 4h | 896 | 1,124 |
| 9 | April 13, 2020 02:15 | April 13, 2020 08:15 | 6h | 815 | 1,485 |
| 10 | April 24, 2020 14:00 | April 24, 2020 14:15 | 15m | 722 | 181 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 63 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Covington Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 12.5 hrs | 3.03 | 6.9 hrs | 2.05 |
| 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 81% of Alabama's customers in 2020; 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, 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/escambia-county