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2016 Lowndes County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lowndes County, AL went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 9,763 customer-hours (Alabama average 0.7 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 29 Alabama counties and 1422nd of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lowndes County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 7, 2016 03:30 | April 7, 2016 09:15 | 5h 45m | 433 | 1,980 |
| 2 | June 17, 2016 22:15 | June 18, 2016 06:30 | 8h 15m | 380 | 1,537 |
| 3 | May 4, 2016 18:45 | May 4, 2016 20:00 | 1h 15m | 370 | 353 |
| 4 | November 17, 2016 15:45 | November 17, 2016 16:30 | 45m | 282 | 212 |
| 5 | November 28, 2016 16:15 | November 28, 2016 19:15 | 3h | 249 | 166 |
| 6 | May 24, 2016 20:45 | May 24, 2016 22:30 | 1h 45m | 245 | 343 |
| 7 | February 16, 2016 00:00 | February 16, 2016 00:45 | 45m | 207 | 104 |
| 8 | July 19, 2016 19:45 | July 19, 2016 22:00 | 2h 15m | 195 | 439 |
| 9 | April 27, 2016 21:30 | April 28, 2016 00:30 | 3h | 160 | 143 |
| 10 | November 10, 2016 15:15 | November 10, 2016 18:00 | 2h 45m | 125 | 282 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 11 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 2016, 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 | 2016 | 2.9 hrs | - | 2.0 hrs | - |
| Dixie Electric Coop - (AL) | 2016 | 3.3 hrs | - | 3.3 hrs | - |
| South Alabama Elec Coop, Inc | 2016 | 4.0 hrs | 1.52 | 1.7 hrs | 1.04 |
| 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/alabama/lowndes-county