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2023 Winston County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Winston County, AL went without power for an average of 31.3 hours, a total of 416K customer-hours (Alabama average 6.3 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 222nd 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 Winston 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 | March 3, 2023 15:15 | March 7, 2023 03:00 | 3d 11h | 10,383 | 209K |
| 2 | March 25, 2023 03:30 | March 26, 2023 14:15 | 1d 10h | 4,223 | 38K |
| 3 | January 12, 2023 10:30 | January 13, 2023 09:15 | 22h 45m | 2,755 | 3,935 |
| 4 | August 6, 2023 19:15 | August 8, 2023 21:30 | 2d 2h | 2,656 | 35K |
| 5 | June 14, 2023 14:30 | June 15, 2023 06:45 | 16h 15m | 1,939 | 9,787 |
| 6 | July 21, 2023 17:30 | July 22, 2023 22:30 | 1d 5h | 1,602 | 12K |
| 7 | August 9, 2023 21:45 | August 10, 2023 17:45 | 20h | 1,561 | 8,035 |
| 8 | May 2, 2023 18:15 | May 3, 2023 10:30 | 16h 15m | 1,338 | 6,268 |
| 9 | February 27, 2023 21:45 | February 28, 2023 04:45 | 7h | 1,326 | 2,618 |
| 10 | April 1, 2023 04:30 | April 2, 2023 06:45 | 1d 2h | 1,264 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 75 reached 100+ customers, 14 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cullman Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 19.3 hrs | 4.78 | 9.4 hrs | 3.29 |
| 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 n/a of Alabama's customers in 2023; 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, 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/winston-county