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2017 Lowndes County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Lowndes County, AL went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 23K customer-hours (Alabama average 1.7 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1088th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lowndes County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 25, 2017 01:45 | June 25, 2017 03:15 | 1h 30m | 1,246 | 1,533 |
| 2 | January 22, 2017 18:30 | January 23, 2017 06:30 | 12h | 572 | 2,714 |
| 3 | October 8, 2017 09:15 | October 8, 2017 23:15 | 14h | 511 | 2,959 |
| 4 | June 22, 2017 17:30 | June 22, 2017 21:15 | 3h 45m | 449 | 1,112 |
| 5 | January 20, 2017 01:30 | January 20, 2017 04:45 | 3h 15m | 379 | 479 |
| 6 | January 24, 2017 19:00 | January 24, 2017 20:15 | 1h 15m | 283 | 354 |
| 7 | May 1, 2017 03:15 | May 1, 2017 15:30 | 12h 15m | 259 | 899 |
| 8 | July 21, 2017 23:00 | July 22, 2017 05:00 | 6h | 222 | 961 |
| 9 | January 21, 2017 13:15 | January 21, 2017 22:00 | 8h 45m | 217 | 514 |
| 10 | October 28, 2017 11:30 | October 28, 2017 16:15 | 4h 45m | 217 | 633 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 24 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 5.6 hrs | - | 2.4 hrs | - |
| Pioneer Electric Coop, Inc - (AL) | 2017 | 8.2 hrs | 3.44 | 6.0 hrs | 2.91 |
| Dixie Electric Coop - (AL) | 2017 | 3.6 hrs | - | 1.9 hrs | - |
| South Alabama Elec Coop, Inc | 2017 | 4.3 hrs | 2.02 | 2.8 hrs | 1.56 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/alabama/lowndes-county