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2019 Houston County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Houston County, AL went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 34K customer-hours (Alabama average 3.2 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 66 Alabama counties and 2690th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Houston County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 12, 2019 15:30 | May 12, 2019 20:45 | 5h 15m | 1,408 | 1,137 |
| 2 | October 31, 2019 17:45 | November 1, 2019 00:45 | 7h | 1,300 | 1,310 |
| 3 | June 8, 2019 14:30 | June 8, 2019 16:30 | 2h | 1,016 | 1,526 |
| 4 | October 10, 2019 12:45 | October 10, 2019 15:45 | 3h | 962 | 303 |
| 5 | July 16, 2019 20:45 | July 16, 2019 23:00 | 2h 15m | 937 | 1,175 |
| 6 | May 28, 2019 18:15 | May 28, 2019 20:45 | 2h 30m | 838 | 636 |
| 7 | November 8, 2019 00:15 | November 8, 2019 08:00 | 7h 45m | 798 | 2,838 |
| 8 | May 27, 2019 12:15 | May 27, 2019 16:30 | 4h 15m | 770 | 974 |
| 9 | January 10, 2019 20:45 | January 10, 2019 23:00 | 2h 15m | 668 | 507 |
| 10 | May 11, 2019 18:00 | May 12, 2019 02:00 | 8h | 668 | 1,616 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 43 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 2019, 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 81% of Alabama's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/alabama/houston-county