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2025 Houston County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Houston County, AL went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 71K customer-hours (Alabama average 6.2 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 66 Alabama counties and 2761st of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Houston County, 2025
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 9, 2025 13:15 | October 9, 2025 17:45 | 4h 30m | 3,183 | 8,817 |
| 2 | February 5, 2025 15:15 | February 5, 2025 18:45 | 3h 30m | 1,259 | 3,014 |
| 3 | January 22, 2025 15:00 | January 22, 2025 23:15 | 8h 15m | 1,095 | 307 |
| 4 | April 27, 2025 20:45 | April 28, 2025 02:30 | 5h 45m | 1,024 | 1,167 |
| 5 | January 14, 2025 11:30 | January 14, 2025 20:45 | 9h 15m | 970 | 3,859 |
| 6 | June 15, 2025 06:45 | June 15, 2025 08:00 | 1h 15m | 874 | 1,092 |
| 7 | April 11, 2025 02:15 | April 11, 2025 04:45 | 2h 30m | 695 | 348 |
| 8 | July 13, 2025 16:15 | July 13, 2025 21:15 | 5h | 647 | 1,150 |
| 9 | June 25, 2025 22:45 | June 26, 2025 21:15 | 22h 30m | 638 | 2,751 |
| 10 | January 21, 2025 23:45 | January 22, 2025 06:00 | 6h 15m | 633 | 805 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 77 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/alabama/houston-county