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2023 Houston County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Houston County, AL went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 160K customer-hours (Alabama average 6.3 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2212th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Houston County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 14, 2023 23:15 | June 17, 2023 01:15 | 2d 2h | 7,579 | 86K |
| 2 | May 27, 2023 01:45 | May 27, 2023 05:00 | 3h 15m | 7,142 | 12K |
| 3 | April 13, 2023 21:15 | April 13, 2023 23:30 | 2h 15m | 2,459 | 2,180 |
| 4 | June 13, 2023 11:45 | June 13, 2023 23:30 | 11h 45m | 1,832 | 641 |
| 5 | November 30, 2023 22:45 | November 30, 2023 23:00 | 15m | 1,774 | 444 |
| 6 | April 25, 2023 14:00 | April 26, 2023 19:30 | 1d 5h | 1,724 | 1,294 |
| 7 | June 17, 2023 03:00 | June 17, 2023 17:45 | 14h 45m | 1,196 | 3,147 |
| 8 | October 10, 2023 12:00 | October 10, 2023 12:45 | 45m | 1,094 | 276 |
| 9 | December 31, 2023 12:45 | December 31, 2023 17:15 | 4h 30m | 1,026 | 2,271 |
| 10 | September 12, 2023 07:00 | September 12, 2023 08:15 | 1h 15m | 862 | 1,078 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 100 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 6.6 hrs | 3.42 | 4.9 hrs | 3.01 |
| Wiregrass Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 6.3 hrs | 3.26 | 1.8 hrs | 1.36 |
| 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 n/a of Alabama's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/alabama/houston-county