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2019 Lowndes County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Lowndes County, AL went without power for an average of 7.2 hours, a total of 40K customer-hours (Alabama average 3.2 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 66 Alabama counties and 783rd of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lowndes County, 2019
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 9, 2019 18:30 | June 9, 2019 22:30 | 4h | 1,513 | 770 |
| 2 | May 9, 2019 20:15 | May 10, 2019 04:00 | 7h 45m | 1,114 | 1,811 |
| 3 | July 27, 2019 23:00 | July 28, 2019 08:00 | 9h | 984 | 3,270 |
| 4 | April 14, 2019 10:15 | April 14, 2019 18:15 | 8h | 746 | 1,339 |
| 5 | October 7, 2019 17:45 | October 8, 2019 01:30 | 7h 45m | 626 | 1,429 |
| 6 | May 23, 2019 18:00 | May 23, 2019 18:15 | 15m | 615 | 154 |
| 7 | May 16, 2019 18:45 | May 16, 2019 19:00 | 15m | 614 | 154 |
| 8 | May 16, 2019 20:15 | May 16, 2019 20:30 | 15m | 614 | 154 |
| 9 | May 16, 2019 21:30 | May 16, 2019 21:45 | 15m | 614 | 154 |
| 10 | November 29, 2019 12:45 | November 29, 2019 15:45 | 3h | 567 | 596 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 44 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 2019, 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 | 2018 | 4.4 hrs | - | 2.4 hrs | - |
| Pioneer Electric Coop, Inc - (AL) | 2018 | 8.3 hrs | 3.01 | 3.7 hrs | 2.37 |
| Dixie Electric Coop - (AL) | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 1.60 | 2.6 hrs | 1.48 |
| South Alabama Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 4.2 hrs | 2.12 | 2.1 hrs | 1.41 |
| 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 81% of Alabama's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/alabama/lowndes-county