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2020 Lowndes County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lowndes County, AL went without power for an average of 54.1 hours, a total of 297K customer-hours (Alabama average 22.1 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 147th 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 Lowndes 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 | October 29, 2020 03:30 | November 7, 2020 00:45 | 8d 21h | 5,046 | 179K |
| 2 | September 16, 2020 10:00 | September 18, 2020 21:00 | 2d 11h | 2,666 | 44K |
| 3 | May 25, 2020 00:15 | May 25, 2020 06:45 | 6h 30m | 1,890 | 2,442 |
| 4 | April 12, 2020 19:15 | April 14, 2020 19:15 | 2d | 1,885 | 19K |
| 5 | November 25, 2020 17:45 | November 26, 2020 00:00 | 6h 15m | 872 | 3,504 |
| 6 | May 23, 2020 23:15 | May 24, 2020 16:45 | 17h 30m | 851 | 2,472 |
| 7 | January 26, 2020 13:30 | January 26, 2020 16:30 | 3h | 824 | 1,586 |
| 8 | July 25, 2020 22:00 | July 26, 2020 06:15 | 8h 15m | 777 | 2,400 |
| 9 | July 12, 2020 16:45 | July 13, 2020 23:00 | 1d 6h | 747 | 5,499 |
| 10 | November 13, 2020 17:15 | November 13, 2020 21:15 | 4h | 744 | 386 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 51 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Alabama Electric Coop | 2020 | 73.1 hrs | - | 3.4 hrs | - |
| Pioneer Electric Coop, Inc - (AL) | 2018 | 8.3 hrs | 3.01 | 3.7 hrs | 2.37 |
| Dixie Electric Coop - (AL) | 2020 | 5.4 hrs | 2.55 | 2.5 hrs | 2.12 |
| South Alabama Elec Coop, Inc | 2020 | 28.0 hrs | 3.72 | 3.1 hrs | 1.79 |
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/lowndes-county