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2021 Winston County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Winston County, AL went without power for an average of 13.1 hours, a total of 174K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.6 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 633rd 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 Winston 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 | July 11, 2021 20:45 | July 12, 2021 13:45 | 17h | 3,760 | 7,081 |
| 2 | May 4, 2021 12:45 | May 6, 2021 05:30 | 1d 16h | 2,293 | 23K |
| 3 | February 15, 2021 17:45 | February 20, 2021 04:30 | 4d 10h | 2,216 | 62K |
| 4 | November 19, 2021 20:30 | November 20, 2021 03:15 | 6h 45m | 1,808 | 4,749 |
| 5 | June 22, 2021 05:00 | June 22, 2021 14:45 | 9h 45m | 1,582 | 2,618 |
| 6 | October 5, 2021 19:30 | October 5, 2021 20:30 | 1h | 1,279 | 726 |
| 7 | October 16, 2021 10:45 | October 16, 2021 14:30 | 3h 45m | 1,253 | 1,573 |
| 8 | March 31, 2021 07:15 | March 31, 2021 17:15 | 10h | 902 | 3,492 |
| 9 | December 11, 2021 03:15 | December 11, 2021 21:45 | 18h 30m | 865 | 3,312 |
| 10 | March 17, 2021 20:15 | March 18, 2021 23:00 | 1d 2h | 858 | 2,469 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 80 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cullman Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 8.9 hrs | 3.24 | 5.9 hrs | 2.65 |
| 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 2021; 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, 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/winston-county