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2021 Covington County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Covington County, AL went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 39K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.6 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2555th 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 Covington 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 | April 24, 2021 11:45 | April 25, 2021 07:45 | 20h | 3,502 | 18K |
| 2 | August 30, 2021 16:45 | August 30, 2021 18:30 | 1h 45m | 1,081 | 820 |
| 3 | November 12, 2021 10:15 | November 12, 2021 11:15 | 1h | 1,039 | 1,039 |
| 4 | May 5, 2021 00:30 | May 5, 2021 07:45 | 7h 15m | 969 | 1,576 |
| 5 | July 10, 2021 15:00 | July 10, 2021 17:15 | 2h 15m | 852 | 1,004 |
| 6 | October 16, 2021 21:15 | October 16, 2021 21:45 | 30m | 691 | 306 |
| 7 | March 31, 2021 21:15 | April 1, 2021 02:00 | 4h 45m | 665 | 762 |
| 8 | May 12, 2021 11:45 | May 12, 2021 17:30 | 5h 45m | 600 | 463 |
| 9 | July 11, 2021 23:30 | July 12, 2021 01:45 | 2h 15m | 567 | 569 |
| 10 | September 22, 2021 18:45 | September 22, 2021 21:15 | 2h 30m | 561 | 297 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 31 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pioneer Electric Coop, Inc - (AL) | 2018 | 8.3 hrs | 3.01 | 3.7 hrs | 2.37 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2021; 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, 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/covington-county