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2022 Houston County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Houston County, AL went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 83K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.0 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2658th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Houston County, 2022
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 1, 2022 21:30 | August 1, 2022 22:15 | 45m | 3,567 | 894 |
| 2 | November 7, 2022 15:15 | November 7, 2022 21:45 | 6h 30m | 3,544 | 5,765 |
| 3 | May 23, 2022 10:00 | May 23, 2022 17:30 | 7h 30m | 2,371 | 1,200 |
| 4 | May 22, 2022 16:30 | May 23, 2022 03:00 | 10h 30m | 1,806 | 5,190 |
| 5 | June 19, 2022 20:15 | July 1, 2022 02:45 | 11d 6h | 1,712 | 5,651 |
| 6 | June 8, 2022 21:15 | June 8, 2022 22:45 | 1h 30m | 1,328 | 336 |
| 7 | May 24, 2022 12:45 | May 24, 2022 17:45 | 5h | 1,302 | 360 |
| 8 | June 7, 2022 13:45 | June 7, 2022 16:15 | 2h 30m | 1,301 | 656 |
| 9 | June 14, 2022 15:00 | June 14, 2022 16:30 | 1h 30m | 1,301 | 652 |
| 10 | June 14, 2022 19:30 | June 14, 2022 20:00 | 30m | 1,301 | 326 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 84 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 2022, 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 | 2022 | 5.8 hrs | 3.70 | 4.4 hrs | 3.23 |
| Wiregrass Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 2.0 hrs | 1.61 | 1.5 hrs | 1.16 |
| 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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/alabama/houston-county