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2024 Covington County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Covington County, AL went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 67K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 66 Alabama counties and 2352nd of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Covington County, 2024
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 9, 2024 07:45 | January 9, 2024 23:45 | 16h | 2,149 | 6,537 |
| 2 | October 17, 2024 19:30 | October 17, 2024 22:45 | 3h 15m | 1,426 | 3,226 |
| 3 | September 19, 2024 14:15 | September 19, 2024 15:30 | 1h 15m | 1,127 | 846 |
| 4 | April 10, 2024 18:30 | April 10, 2024 22:00 | 3h 30m | 1,090 | 1,664 |
| 5 | July 16, 2024 07:00 | July 16, 2024 11:30 | 4h 30m | 1,089 | 4,898 |
| 6 | April 11, 2024 20:15 | April 12, 2024 00:30 | 4h 15m | 1,054 | 1,077 |
| 7 | August 19, 2024 01:30 | August 19, 2024 19:15 | 17h 45m | 1,048 | 4,252 |
| 8 | December 29, 2024 06:00 | December 29, 2024 12:00 | 6h | 919 | 1,438 |
| 9 | July 29, 2024 04:00 | July 29, 2024 14:00 | 10h | 908 | 1,870 |
| 10 | March 21, 2024 13:45 | March 21, 2024 14:00 | 15m | 886 | 222 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 61 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 Covington County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 3.0 hrs | 1.93 | 2.2 hrs | 1.51 |
| Wiregrass Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 3.2 hrs | 1.64 | 1.8 hrs | 1.27 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/alabama/covington-county