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2021 Coffee County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Coffee County, AL went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 76K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.6 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2066th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Coffee County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 28, 2021 21:00 | January 29, 2021 14:15 | 17h 15m | 5,189 | 15K |
| 2 | November 24, 2021 11:45 | November 24, 2021 12:30 | 45m | 2,268 | 681 |
| 3 | August 17, 2021 00:30 | August 17, 2021 23:30 | 23h | 1,952 | 6,700 |
| 4 | July 16, 2021 04:15 | July 16, 2021 06:15 | 2h | 1,659 | 1,480 |
| 5 | June 20, 2021 07:00 | June 20, 2021 18:00 | 11h | 1,546 | 6,214 |
| 6 | April 24, 2021 09:30 | April 25, 2021 23:45 | 1d 14h | 1,111 | 7,030 |
| 7 | December 29, 2021 07:30 | December 29, 2021 09:30 | 2h | 1,037 | 2,074 |
| 8 | January 23, 2021 07:00 | January 23, 2021 13:15 | 6h 15m | 992 | 667 |
| 9 | January 17, 2021 21:45 | January 18, 2021 04:00 | 6h 15m | 919 | 1,664 |
| 10 | August 31, 2021 09:15 | August 31, 2021 14:00 | 4h 45m | 871 | 1,681 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 56 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 2021, 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 | 2021 | 2.8 hrs | 1.28 | 2.3 hrs | 1.16 |
| Covington Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 2.6 hrs | 1.79 | 81 min | 1.34 |
| Wiregrass Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 5.5 hrs | 2.49 | 1.8 hrs | 1.24 |
| 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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/alabama/coffee-county