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2024 Winston County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Winston County, AL went without power for an average of 8.5 hours, a total of 112K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 66 Alabama counties and 1068th 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 Winston 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 | March 15, 2024 10:30 | March 16, 2024 01:45 | 15h 15m | 2,590 | 11K |
| 2 | July 27, 2024 03:15 | July 27, 2024 06:15 | 3h | 1,885 | 5,655 |
| 3 | December 18, 2024 23:00 | December 19, 2024 12:15 | 13h 15m | 1,103 | 5,207 |
| 4 | December 29, 2024 02:15 | December 30, 2024 04:15 | 1d 2h | 1,093 | 11K |
| 5 | November 26, 2024 14:00 | November 26, 2024 18:30 | 4h 30m | 1,086 | 831 |
| 6 | July 19, 2024 13:15 | July 19, 2024 21:15 | 8h | 1,017 | 315 |
| 7 | January 17, 2024 10:45 | January 18, 2024 06:30 | 19h 45m | 892 | 2,366 |
| 8 | January 8, 2024 22:00 | January 10, 2024 02:15 | 1d 4h | 891 | 5,768 |
| 9 | June 6, 2024 00:45 | June 6, 2024 21:15 | 20h 30m | 875 | 3,222 |
| 10 | August 31, 2024 17:45 | September 1, 2024 01:00 | 7h 15m | 860 | 1,930 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 68 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cullman Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 3.9 hrs | 2.00 | 3.9 hrs | 2.00 |
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/winston-county