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2022 Winston County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Winston County, AL went without power for an average of 9.8 hours, a total of 130K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.0 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 745th 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 Winston 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 | October 31, 2022 00:15 | October 31, 2022 07:00 | 6h 45m | 2,258 | 11K |
| 2 | October 5, 2022 13:45 | October 5, 2022 17:15 | 3h 30m | 2,171 | 1,470 |
| 3 | December 24, 2022 04:30 | December 24, 2022 23:30 | 19h | 1,910 | 3,448 |
| 4 | May 10, 2022 22:30 | May 10, 2022 23:30 | 1h | 1,846 | 1,385 |
| 5 | October 7, 2022 13:30 | October 7, 2022 15:15 | 1h 45m | 1,808 | 458 |
| 6 | June 8, 2022 23:30 | June 10, 2022 01:45 | 1d 2h | 1,596 | 12K |
| 7 | May 6, 2022 02:15 | May 7, 2022 13:00 | 1d 10h | 1,564 | 7,884 |
| 8 | August 13, 2022 03:15 | August 13, 2022 06:15 | 3h | 1,561 | 4,678 |
| 9 | October 13, 2022 04:15 | October 13, 2022 17:45 | 13h 30m | 1,398 | 5,186 |
| 10 | August 3, 2022 17:15 | August 3, 2022 18:15 | 1h | 1,294 | 324 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 76 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cullman Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 7.1 hrs | 3.31 | 6.0 hrs | 2.43 |
| 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 2022; 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, 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/winston-county