When will the power be back in Houston County, AL?
See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Alabama
28
customers reported out in Houston County, AL
Reported by the utility's own live outage data — this county isn't included in the slower nationwide county tally.
County-wide restoration outlook: no clear recovery trend yet — past outages here of 200+ customers in the same kind of weather ran ~48 min start to finish (5 on record)
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
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Updated 11:52 PM CDT.
428county-wide trend of customers without power · last 3.4 days · tap or hover a point to see its number
Communities with reported outages — from the utilities that publish city-by-city detail for this county
⚡ No power in Houston, AL? We'll notify you when the outage we're tracking looks mostly restored.
An alert when an outage is detected here, another once a dependable restoration estimate is ready, and an all-clear when the outage we're tracking looks substantially restored (~90% of customers back). No email, no account — anonymous usage stats only.
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Wiregrass Electric Cooperative ↗ and Alabama Power, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Dothan also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Houston County, AL
Last significant outage: Oct 9, 2026 — peaked at 15,375 customers, restored in ~2.9 days (tropical storm).
Across the 14 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.2 hr (median).
Every outage behind these figures (14)
Began
Peak out
Restored in
Weather
Oct 9, 2026
15,375
~2.9 days
tropical storm
Sep 20, 2026
618
~3.7 hr
wind/storm
Sep 6, 2026
313
~6.3 hr
weather alert
Aug 24, 2026
205
~42 min
no severe weather
Aug 21, 2026
1,351
~7.5 hr
heat event
Aug 20, 2026
676
~30 min
heat event
Aug 14, 2026
380
~1.2 hr
heat event
Aug 7, 2026
230
~1.3 hr
no severe weather
Aug 3, 2026
237
~48 min
no severe weather
Jul 31, 2026
4,045
~6.7 hr
weather alert
Jul 31, 2026
729
~30 min
no severe weather
Jul 30, 2026
1,525
~5.2 hr
heat event
Jul 28, 2026
212
~3 hr
heat event
Jul 25, 2026
207
~1 hr
no severe weather
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 25, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Houston County, AL
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
444 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 1 major event of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~1.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the Alabama norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.5 hr.
Largest on record: ~23,059 customers out in October 2018, restored after about 6.4 days. The busiest year on record here was 2022.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025, replayed through the same event rules as our tracking archive above with two differences: outages shorter than
half an hour count here, and a reading above twice the county's customers or households is capped. They cover a far longer period
than we have been tracking — a different set of outages, so the two typical times differ. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities in Houston County include Dothan, Ashford, Taylor, Kinsey, Rehobeth, Cowarts, Webb and Cottonwood. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Houston County, AL?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Houston include Wiregrass Electric Cooperative, Alabama Power and City of Dothan — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
