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2019 Winston County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Winston County, AL went without power for an average of 12.8 hours, a total of 170K customer-hours (Alabama average 3.2 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 66 Alabama counties and 425th 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 Winston 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 | August 24, 2019 13:45 | August 24, 2019 22:30 | 8h 45m | 7,279 | 49K |
| 2 | February 23, 2019 22:00 | February 24, 2019 21:15 | 23h 15m | 1,813 | 13K |
| 3 | March 10, 2019 12:15 | March 10, 2019 16:30 | 4h 15m | 1,571 | 1,574 |
| 4 | November 12, 2019 05:15 | November 12, 2019 19:45 | 14h 30m | 1,464 | 4,363 |
| 5 | April 20, 2019 11:45 | April 20, 2019 18:30 | 6h 45m | 1,454 | 3,054 |
| 6 | March 14, 2019 20:45 | March 15, 2019 04:45 | 8h | 1,388 | 3,038 |
| 7 | February 23, 2019 10:30 | February 23, 2019 19:30 | 9h | 1,218 | 4,580 |
| 8 | June 20, 2019 07:15 | June 21, 2019 02:45 | 19h 30m | 1,127 | 9,250 |
| 9 | August 1, 2019 05:45 | August 1, 2019 12:00 | 6h 15m | 1,038 | 3,779 |
| 10 | June 7, 2019 08:30 | June 7, 2019 13:00 | 4h 30m | 1,010 | 2,495 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 86 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cullman Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 5.2 hrs | 2.76 | 5.2 hrs | 2.76 |
| 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 81% of Alabama's customers in 2019; 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, 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/winston-county