Power Out Map
– 0% of Winston out 0 customers out in Alabama

Power outage history

Winston County Alabama

15hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

14th most of 60 in Alabama 2.3× the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 3, 2023 78% of customers out · 90% back in 44 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 15h / yr State average 7.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 5.9 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 6hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.4days Mar 3, 2023, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 52% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 31 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 13,268 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Winston's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 31 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Winston, hours without power per customer

WinstonUS median countyAlabama average
0 10 20 30 40 2.4 ’17 7.1 ’18 13 ’19 12 ’20 13 ’21 9.7 ’22 31 ’23 8.4 ’24 27 ’25 AL 7.0 US 6.6

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Mar 3, 2023 Windstorm 10,383 78% 2.4 d 44 h 208k
Jun 7, 2025 Thunderstorms 9,250 70% 2.1 d 36 h 170k
Aug 24, 2019 No storm report 7,279 55% 8.8 h 4.0 h 49k
Mar 24, 2023 Thunderstorms 4,223 32% 25 h 14 h 38k
Feb 17, 2021 Winter storm 2,216 17% 27 h 21 h 36k
Oct 17, 2020 No storm report 6,480 49% 5.2 h 6.2 h 33k
Aug 6, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,656 20% 21 h 13 h 27k
Feb 15, 2021 Winter storm 1,967 15% 31 h 25 h 24k
May 4, 2021 Thunderstorms 2,293 17% 24 h 19 h 22k
Nov 7, 2025 No storm report 7,109 54% 3.2 h 3.2 h 22k
Mar 4, 2025 Windstorm 2,145 16% 25 h 16 h 16k
Jan 11, 2020 Thunderstorms 2,432 18% 21 h 9.8 h 15k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +6h 90% by +14h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Winston from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 48%
  • Thunderstorms 28%
  • Windstorm 17%
  • Winter storm 4.6%
  • Tornadoes 1.7%
  • Tropical storm 1.2%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Winston

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Alabama territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Alabama Power Co Investor Owned 410 108 2.06 17.9 1.3M
Cullman Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 780 347 3.39 14.6 40k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Alabama

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Alabama counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 13,268 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →