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2023 Covington County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Covington County, AL went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 92K customer-hours (Alabama average 6.3 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1946th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Covington County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 16, 2023 14:15 | June 18, 2023 01:45 | 1d 11h | 3,344 | 20K |
| 2 | June 14, 2023 23:15 | June 16, 2023 05:00 | 1d 5h | 2,275 | 21K |
| 3 | April 3, 2023 14:45 | April 4, 2023 02:00 | 11h 15m | 1,787 | 10K |
| 4 | July 5, 2023 13:15 | July 5, 2023 21:45 | 8h 30m | 1,436 | 2,622 |
| 5 | November 3, 2023 16:15 | November 3, 2023 17:15 | 1h | 1,398 | 352 |
| 6 | August 15, 2023 18:30 | August 16, 2023 06:15 | 11h 45m | 1,072 | 3,065 |
| 7 | August 4, 2023 22:15 | August 5, 2023 04:15 | 6h | 1,040 | 1,068 |
| 8 | January 12, 2023 20:45 | January 13, 2023 09:45 | 13h | 1,021 | 4,371 |
| 9 | December 10, 2023 10:15 | December 10, 2023 15:15 | 5h | 910 | 2,601 |
| 10 | June 1, 2023 15:15 | June 1, 2023 19:15 | 4h | 718 | 1,697 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 47 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 4.3 hrs | 2.00 | 1.7 hrs | 1.25 |
| Wiregrass Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 6.3 hrs | 3.26 | 1.8 hrs | 1.36 |
| 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 n/a of Alabama's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/alabama/covington-county