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2015 Houston County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Houston County, AL went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Alabama average 0.5 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 30 Alabama counties and 2231st of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Houston County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 23, 2015 13:30 | December 24, 2015 01:45 | 12h 15m | 1,741 | 5,990 |
| 2 | September 24, 2015 12:45 | September 24, 2015 13:15 | 30m | 1,077 | 539 |
| 3 | September 25, 2015 17:15 | September 25, 2015 18:00 | 45m | 1,077 | 808 |
| 4 | October 5, 2015 13:15 | October 5, 2015 14:30 | 1h 15m | 1,068 | 1,211 |
| 5 | October 8, 2015 18:45 | October 8, 2015 19:45 | 1h | 1,068 | 1,068 |
| 6 | November 20, 2015 13:45 | November 20, 2015 14:15 | 30m | 728 | 364 |
| 7 | November 8, 2015 00:30 | November 8, 2015 03:30 | 3h | 396 | 445 |
| 8 | December 14, 2015 18:15 | December 14, 2015 20:00 | 1h 45m | 339 | 256 |
| 9 | September 22, 2015 05:30 | September 22, 2015 10:00 | 4h 30m | 322 | 126 |
| 10 | September 10, 2015 22:15 | September 11, 2015 05:00 | 6h 45m | 289 | 498 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 15 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Houston County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiregrass Electric Coop, Inc | 2015 | 6.2 hrs | 1.86 | 1.8 hrs | 1.24 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| West Florida El Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Dothan - (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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 72,388 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. Houston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Houston County, AL annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/alabama/houston-county