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2017 Winston County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Winston County, AL went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 32K customer-hours (Alabama average 1.7 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1509th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Winston 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 12, 2017 01:45 | September 12, 2017 15:45 | 14h | 1,522 | 4,681 |
| 2 | October 10, 2017 15:45 | October 10, 2017 18:30 | 2h 45m | 1,200 | 902 |
| 3 | May 9, 2017 13:30 | May 9, 2017 16:15 | 2h 45m | 1,181 | 889 |
| 4 | May 18, 2017 16:45 | May 18, 2017 17:45 | 1h | 964 | 724 |
| 5 | May 20, 2017 21:30 | May 21, 2017 01:00 | 3h 30m | 964 | 3,110 |
| 6 | October 23, 2017 01:15 | October 23, 2017 16:00 | 14h 45m | 812 | 2,309 |
| 7 | September 18, 2017 20:15 | September 19, 2017 03:00 | 6h 45m | 724 | 194 |
| 8 | October 30, 2017 15:00 | October 30, 2017 16:15 | 1h 15m | 689 | 173 |
| 9 | May 28, 2017 06:45 | May 29, 2017 00:00 | 17h 15m | 655 | 3,156 |
| 10 | July 23, 2017 22:00 | July 24, 2017 00:15 | 2h 15m | 518 | 759 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 24 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 Winston 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cullman Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 7.9 hrs | 2.68 | 3.9 hrs | 2.00 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 13,268 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. Winston County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Winston 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/winston-county