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2020 Lamar County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lamar County, AL went without power for an average of 15.3 hours, a total of 95K customer-hours (Alabama average 22.1 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 546th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lamar County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 10, 2020 18:45 | November 10, 2020 22:00 | 3h 15m | 4,982 | 1,317 |
| 2 | May 17, 2020 19:15 | May 17, 2020 21:45 | 2h 30m | 4,173 | 6,337 |
| 3 | April 12, 2020 16:30 | April 15, 2020 00:30 | 2d 8h | 2,483 | 31K |
| 4 | July 12, 2020 14:15 | July 13, 2020 02:00 | 11h 45m | 2,085 | 7,455 |
| 5 | June 11, 2020 04:15 | June 11, 2020 05:00 | 45m | 1,765 | 1,324 |
| 6 | January 11, 2020 08:45 | January 13, 2020 03:00 | 1d 18h | 1,362 | 2,975 |
| 7 | February 20, 2020 23:15 | February 21, 2020 05:00 | 5h 45m | 676 | 2,440 |
| 8 | October 16, 2020 16:15 | October 16, 2020 19:00 | 2h 45m | 661 | 200 |
| 9 | May 6, 2020 00:00 | May 6, 2020 01:15 | 1h 15m | 653 | 813 |
| 10 | June 5, 2020 21:45 | June 6, 2020 08:30 | 10h 45m | 574 | 928 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 55 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Lamar County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tombigbee Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 6.7 hrs | 2.31 | 6.7 hrs | 2.31 |
| 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 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,221 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. Lamar County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lamar County, AL annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/alabama/lamar-county