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2024 Houston County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Houston County, AL went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 140K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 66 Alabama counties and 2427th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Houston County, 2024
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 29, 2024 22:15 | June 30, 2024 04:15 | 6h | 9,944 | 6,786 |
| 2 | August 19, 2024 01:15 | August 19, 2024 17:15 | 16h | 7,743 | 13K |
| 3 | January 9, 2024 03:15 | January 12, 2024 00:00 | 2d 20h | 4,336 | 45K |
| 4 | January 16, 2024 09:00 | January 19, 2024 15:45 | 3d 6h | 3,647 | 6,628 |
| 5 | May 10, 2024 07:45 | May 11, 2024 01:15 | 17h 30m | 2,611 | 5,731 |
| 6 | March 9, 2024 08:45 | March 9, 2024 15:15 | 6h 30m | 2,062 | 1,036 |
| 7 | September 13, 2024 23:30 | September 14, 2024 02:45 | 3h 15m | 1,779 | 2,670 |
| 8 | May 19, 2024 08:15 | May 20, 2024 10:00 | 1d 1h | 1,772 | 509 |
| 9 | April 3, 2024 06:45 | April 3, 2024 20:30 | 13h 45m | 1,659 | 1,768 |
| 10 | May 1, 2024 12:15 | May 1, 2024 15:15 | 3h | 1,325 | 923 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 64 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 2024, 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 | 2024 | 9.5 hrs | 3.15 | 3.1 hrs | 2.38 |
| Wiregrass Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 3.2 hrs | 1.64 | 1.8 hrs | 1.27 |
| City of Dothan - (AL) | 2024 | 73 min | 0.75 | 61 min | 0.63 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/alabama/houston-county