Power Outages in Houston County, AL
No live outage feed is available for Houston County, AL yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 1.0 hours.
Houston County, AL is served by local tracked utilities.
Houston County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
No active NWS alerts for Houston County right now.
Houston County has been under 5 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Special Weather Statement on July 17, 2026.
- Special Weather Statement ×2
- Flood Advisory ×1
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning ×1
- Severe Thunderstorm Watch ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Houston County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
- Dothanno active outage
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Houston County went about 1.0 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 23,059 customers.
Worst year here was 2018 (peak 23,059 customers out) · decade average 2.7 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 205 | 1,741 | 0.2 |
| 2016 | 94 | 1,083 | 0.1 |
| 2017 | 507 | 1,714 | 0.3 |
| 2018 | 940 | 23,059 | 19.6 |
| 2019 | 792 | 1,408 | 0.5 |
| 2020 | 886 | 3,042 | 1.4 |
| 2021 | 951 | 6,175 | 1.5 |
| 2022 | 917 | 3,567 | 1.1 |
| 2023 | 1,018 | 7,579 | 2.2 |
| 2024 | 915 | 9,944 | 1.9 |
| 2025 | 1,021 | 3,183 | 1.0 |
Relatively High hurricanes exposure · 2.7 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability relatively high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Houston County: FAQ
- How often does Houston County, AL lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Houston County, AL logged 1,021 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 1.0 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Houston County, AL?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 23,059 customers without power, beginning October 10, 2018 and lasting about 9d 8h.
- Is there a power outage in Houston County, AL right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Houston County, AL. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Dothan. Outage counts for these communities are reported at the Houston County level shown above.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Houston County.
36301, 36303, 36305, 36312, 36320, 36321, 36343, 36352, 36370, 36376
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/01069 and /api/v1/counties/01069/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Alabama customers).