County annual report · FIPS 01069
2016 Houston County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Houston County, AL went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 6,371 customer-hours (Alabama average 0.7 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 29 Alabama counties and 2231st of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Houston County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 8, 2016 17:15 | February 8, 2016 17:45 | 30m | 1,083 | 272 |
| 2 | February 24, 2016 03:45 | February 24, 2016 21:15 | 17h 30m | 644 | 3,952 |
| 3 | January 23, 2016 16:45 | January 23, 2016 23:15 | 6h 30m | 363 | 1,467 |
| 4 | February 25, 2016 15:30 | February 25, 2016 17:15 | 1h 45m | 61 | 107 |
| 5 | February 27, 2016 06:15 | February 27, 2016 08:45 | 2h 30m | 48 | 55 |
| 6 | January 13, 2016 16:00 | January 13, 2016 17:30 | 1h 30m | 47 | 71 |
| 7 | January 23, 2016 09:30 | January 23, 2016 12:00 | 2h 30m | 33 | 51 |
| 8 | February 6, 2016 13:45 | February 6, 2016 14:45 | 1h | 31 | 31 |
| 9 | January 15, 2016 12:00 | January 15, 2016 13:00 | 1h | 27 | 22 |
| 10 | February 12, 2016 10:30 | February 12, 2016 11:45 | 1h 15m | 24 | 24 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 3 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 2016, 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 | 2016 | 2.5 hrs | 1.38 | 1.8 hrs | 1.22 |
| 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/alabama/houston-county