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2021 Houston County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Houston County, AL went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 108K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.6 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2470th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Houston County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 24, 2021 12:45 | April 26, 2021 00:15 | 1d 11h | 6,175 | 32K |
| 2 | June 8, 2021 17:00 | June 9, 2021 02:00 | 9h | 2,257 | 2,404 |
| 3 | August 16, 2021 22:00 | August 17, 2021 21:30 | 23h 30m | 2,256 | 17K |
| 4 | June 7, 2021 12:30 | June 7, 2021 16:30 | 4h | 2,250 | 1,161 |
| 5 | December 2, 2021 14:00 | December 2, 2021 16:00 | 2h | 2,147 | 2,031 |
| 6 | October 14, 2021 05:00 | October 14, 2021 05:15 | 15m | 2,000 | 500 |
| 7 | December 6, 2021 23:15 | December 7, 2021 01:45 | 2h 30m | 1,246 | 648 |
| 8 | July 27, 2021 19:45 | July 28, 2021 00:45 | 5h | 1,087 | 1,890 |
| 9 | September 23, 2021 13:15 | September 23, 2021 23:15 | 10h | 838 | 1,236 |
| 10 | February 12, 2021 07:00 | February 12, 2021 10:45 | 3h 45m | 830 | 2,905 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 81 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 2021, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Florida El Coop Assn, Inc | 2021 | 11.3 hrs | 3.24 | 3.4 hrs | 2.07 |
| Wiregrass Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 5.5 hrs | 2.49 | 1.8 hrs | 1.24 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/alabama/houston-county