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2017 Houston County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Houston County, AL went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (Alabama average 1.7 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2384th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Houston County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 11, 2017 06:15 | September 12, 2017 02:15 | 20h | 1,714 | 6,482 |
| 2 | April 19, 2017 19:45 | April 19, 2017 21:00 | 1h 15m | 1,213 | 487 |
| 3 | July 10, 2017 04:00 | July 10, 2017 08:15 | 4h 15m | 1,129 | 4,376 |
| 4 | December 8, 2017 22:45 | December 9, 2017 00:00 | 1h 15m | 765 | 574 |
| 5 | December 11, 2017 18:45 | December 11, 2017 21:45 | 3h | 596 | 301 |
| 6 | April 26, 2017 20:00 | April 26, 2017 20:15 | 15m | 578 | 145 |
| 7 | October 31, 2017 14:00 | October 31, 2017 17:15 | 3h 15m | 487 | 893 |
| 8 | August 15, 2017 04:00 | August 15, 2017 05:30 | 1h 30m | 426 | 565 |
| 9 | May 23, 2017 15:00 | May 23, 2017 15:30 | 30m | 322 | 161 |
| 10 | December 7, 2017 19:30 | December 8, 2017 02:15 | 6h 45m | 301 | 380 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 26 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 2.7 hrs | 1.37 | 77 min | 0.93 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/alabama/houston-county