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2023 Escambia County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Escambia County, AL went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 72K customer-hours (Alabama average 6.3 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1703rd 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 Escambia 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 11:30 | June 19, 2023 00:00 | 2d 12h | 6,245 | 43K |
| 2 | September 7, 2023 13:45 | September 7, 2023 16:30 | 2h 45m | 1,708 | 570 |
| 3 | November 20, 2023 16:15 | November 20, 2023 21:30 | 5h 15m | 1,008 | 521 |
| 4 | August 15, 2023 21:45 | August 16, 2023 06:45 | 9h | 816 | 929 |
| 5 | March 26, 2023 13:15 | March 26, 2023 18:00 | 4h 45m | 629 | 758 |
| 6 | June 12, 2023 22:45 | June 13, 2023 09:45 | 11h | 412 | 858 |
| 7 | June 26, 2023 08:15 | June 26, 2023 16:15 | 8h | 352 | 1,066 |
| 8 | June 19, 2023 09:15 | June 20, 2023 01:30 | 16h 15m | 328 | 489 |
| 9 | October 1, 2023 18:15 | October 2, 2023 01:15 | 7h | 324 | 961 |
| 10 | April 15, 2023 20:15 | April 16, 2023 02:15 | 6h | 295 | 827 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 39 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 Escambia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Covington Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 4.3 hrs | 2.00 | 1.7 hrs | 1.25 |
| 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 n/a of Alabama's customers in 2023; 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, 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/escambia-county