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2020 Winston County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Winston County, AL went without power for an average of 12.1 hours, a total of 160K customer-hours (Alabama average 22.1 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 65 Alabama counties and 661st of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Winston County, 2020
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 17, 2020 11:15 | October 17, 2020 16:30 | 5h 15m | 6,480 | 33K |
| 2 | January 11, 2020 07:15 | January 13, 2020 09:15 | 2d 2h | 2,432 | 26K |
| 3 | August 27, 2020 20:30 | August 28, 2020 04:45 | 8h 15m | 2,001 | 4,110 |
| 4 | May 17, 2020 16:45 | May 17, 2020 21:45 | 5h | 1,411 | 2,204 |
| 5 | April 13, 2020 01:30 | April 14, 2020 08:00 | 1d 6h | 1,345 | 15K |
| 6 | July 30, 2020 18:45 | July 30, 2020 19:00 | 15m | 1,244 | 311 |
| 7 | December 4, 2020 10:15 | December 4, 2020 16:00 | 5h 45m | 1,240 | 3,384 |
| 8 | July 12, 2020 16:15 | July 13, 2020 23:30 | 1d 7h | 1,150 | 6,959 |
| 9 | March 31, 2020 19:30 | March 31, 2020 20:45 | 1h 15m | 1,015 | 1,016 |
| 10 | January 24, 2020 02:45 | January 24, 2020 03:15 | 30m | 1,014 | 507 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 83 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 2020, 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 | 2020 | 10.6 hrs | 3.80 | 5.4 hrs | 2.90 |
| 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 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/alabama/winston-county