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2021 Escambia County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Escambia County, AL went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 71K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.6 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1588th 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 Escambia 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 10:30 | April 25, 2021 16:15 | 1d 5h | 3,523 | 17K |
| 2 | August 14, 2021 04:15 | August 14, 2021 07:15 | 3h | 3,466 | 6,578 |
| 3 | July 17, 2021 18:30 | July 17, 2021 23:00 | 4h 30m | 1,890 | 1,149 |
| 4 | July 2, 2021 16:15 | July 2, 2021 17:15 | 1h | 1,645 | 824 |
| 5 | June 19, 2021 02:15 | June 21, 2021 03:45 | 2d 1h | 1,486 | 26K |
| 6 | August 4, 2021 19:00 | August 4, 2021 20:30 | 1h 30m | 1,181 | 299 |
| 7 | November 2, 2021 16:00 | November 2, 2021 16:15 | 15m | 710 | 178 |
| 8 | March 28, 2021 02:30 | March 28, 2021 05:45 | 3h 15m | 637 | 401 |
| 9 | February 15, 2021 16:15 | February 15, 2021 20:45 | 4h 30m | 427 | 862 |
| 10 | May 5, 2021 01:15 | May 5, 2021 05:15 | 4h | 375 | 434 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 33 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Covington Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 2.6 hrs | 1.79 | 81 min | 1.34 |
| 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 2021; 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, 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/escambia-county