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2018 Houston County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Houston County, AL went without power for an average of 19.6 hours, a total of 1.4M customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 287th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Houston County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 10, 2018 13:00 | October 19, 2018 21:45 | 9d 8h | 23,059 | 1.4M |
| 2 | July 31, 2018 16:00 | July 31, 2018 23:00 | 7h | 1,790 | 3,867 |
| 3 | December 2, 2018 00:45 | December 2, 2018 17:45 | 17h | 1,222 | 3,617 |
| 4 | July 22, 2018 20:00 | July 23, 2018 04:00 | 8h | 1,135 | 4,401 |
| 5 | May 25, 2018 19:15 | May 26, 2018 01:00 | 5h 45m | 1,097 | 423 |
| 6 | September 7, 2018 14:15 | September 7, 2018 14:30 | 15m | 1,002 | 251 |
| 7 | August 16, 2018 18:00 | August 17, 2018 00:00 | 6h | 1,000 | 863 |
| 8 | June 25, 2018 15:45 | June 25, 2018 18:30 | 2h 45m | 934 | 484 |
| 9 | June 27, 2018 16:15 | June 27, 2018 16:45 | 30m | 933 | 467 |
| 10 | December 21, 2018 01:15 | December 21, 2018 05:30 | 4h 15m | 844 | 1,477 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 97 reached 100+ customers, 7 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 2018, 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 | 2018 | 68.6 hrs | 3.56 | 1.8 hrs | 1.49 |
| 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 79% of Alabama's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/alabama/houston-county