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2021 Lawrence County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lawrence County, AL went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 2,929 customer-hours (Alabama average 4.6 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2879th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lawrence County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 9, 2021 16:00 | September 9, 2021 17:30 | 1h 30m | 370 | 463 |
| 2 | June 22, 2021 10:45 | June 22, 2021 12:30 | 1h 45m | 242 | 242 |
| 3 | February 18, 2021 03:45 | February 20, 2021 03:15 | 1d 23h | 217 | 931 |
| 4 | December 29, 2021 12:45 | December 29, 2021 14:15 | 1h 30m | 204 | 262 |
| 5 | February 15, 2021 18:45 | February 17, 2021 11:45 | 1d 17h | 108 | 601 |
| 6 | September 18, 2021 23:45 | September 19, 2021 02:30 | 2h 45m | 26 | 72 |
| 7 | January 3, 2021 05:45 | January 3, 2021 07:30 | 1h 45m | 25 | 44 |
| 8 | February 20, 2021 18:30 | February 20, 2021 20:15 | 1h 45m | 11 | 17 |
| 9 | February 25, 2021 12:30 | February 25, 2021 13:45 | 1h 15m | 11 | 14 |
| 10 | March 21, 2021 17:45 | March 21, 2021 19:45 | 2h | 11 | 22 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 5 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 Lawrence County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cullman Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 8.9 hrs | 3.24 | 5.9 hrs | 2.65 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sheffield Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
| Joe Wheeler Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Courtland | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 13,082 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. Lawrence County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lawrence County, AL annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/alabama/lawrence-county