County annual report · FIPS 01085
2015 Lowndes County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Lowndes County, AL went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 22K customer-hours (Alabama average 0.5 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 30 Alabama counties and 699th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lowndes County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 19, 2015 21:00 | July 19, 2015 23:00 | 2h | 1,002 | 1,598 |
| 2 | May 20, 2015 22:00 | May 21, 2015 04:00 | 6h | 604 | 1,284 |
| 3 | January 6, 2015 19:00 | January 6, 2015 22:15 | 3h 15m | 465 | 1,396 |
| 4 | April 19, 2015 06:15 | April 19, 2015 11:15 | 5h | 445 | 2,216 |
| 5 | August 12, 2015 00:30 | August 12, 2015 00:45 | 15m | 431 | 108 |
| 6 | December 3, 2015 21:00 | December 4, 2015 03:00 | 6h | 430 | 2,580 |
| 7 | July 23, 2015 00:45 | July 23, 2015 23:15 | 22h 30m | 424 | 3,269 |
| 8 | February 18, 2015 18:45 | February 18, 2015 21:15 | 2h 30m | 414 | 524 |
| 9 | February 9, 2015 15:00 | February 9, 2015 16:00 | 1h | 405 | 317 |
| 10 | June 25, 2015 02:45 | June 25, 2015 07:15 | 4h 30m | 375 | 1,200 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 25 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Lowndes County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Alabama Electric Coop | 2015 | 2.6 hrs | - | 2.6 hrs | - |
| Dixie Electric Coop - (AL) | 2015 | 2.3 hrs | - | 2.3 hrs | - |
| South Alabama Elec Coop, Inc | 2013 | 2.8 hrs | 2.00 | 1.8 hrs | 1.00 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pioneer Electric Coop, Inc - (AL) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,496 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. Lowndes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lowndes County, AL annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/alabama/lowndes-county