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2025 Covington County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Covington County, AL went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 76K customer-hours (Alabama average 6.2 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 66 Alabama counties and 2227th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Covington County, 2025
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 25, 2025 23:45 | June 26, 2025 19:30 | 19h 45m | 3,832 | 21K |
| 2 | February 16, 2025 08:30 | February 16, 2025 20:00 | 11h 30m | 3,751 | 11K |
| 3 | February 13, 2025 07:30 | February 13, 2025 16:00 | 8h 30m | 1,974 | 5,804 |
| 4 | June 9, 2025 11:15 | June 9, 2025 12:30 | 1h 15m | 1,853 | 1,556 |
| 5 | January 8, 2025 18:30 | January 8, 2025 23:45 | 5h 15m | 1,760 | 1,769 |
| 6 | May 1, 2025 03:30 | May 1, 2025 07:00 | 3h 30m | 1,195 | 2,990 |
| 7 | March 4, 2025 19:00 | March 5, 2025 09:45 | 14h 45m | 1,168 | 1,783 |
| 8 | April 3, 2025 16:45 | April 3, 2025 20:15 | 3h 30m | 1,138 | 1,144 |
| 9 | December 19, 2025 19:30 | December 19, 2025 23:30 | 4h | 823 | 689 |
| 10 | November 8, 2025 13:15 | November 8, 2025 19:45 | 6h 30m | 734 | 2,268 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 51 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/alabama/covington-county