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2021 Lowndes County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lowndes County, AL went without power for an average of 12.3 hours, a total of 68K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.6 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 668th 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 Lowndes 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 | May 4, 2021 23:00 | May 6, 2021 20:15 | 1d 21h | 2,375 | 35K |
| 2 | September 16, 2021 01:15 | September 16, 2021 07:15 | 6h | 616 | 1,590 |
| 3 | May 12, 2021 12:00 | May 12, 2021 13:30 | 1h 30m | 474 | 711 |
| 4 | February 19, 2021 22:45 | February 20, 2021 09:15 | 10h 30m | 456 | 4,192 |
| 5 | May 10, 2021 10:00 | May 10, 2021 16:45 | 6h 45m | 451 | 1,044 |
| 6 | March 28, 2021 16:00 | March 28, 2021 23:00 | 7h | 414 | 2,582 |
| 7 | September 1, 2021 17:45 | September 2, 2021 03:00 | 9h 15m | 349 | 727 |
| 8 | August 27, 2021 23:00 | August 28, 2021 00:30 | 1h 30m | 299 | 242 |
| 9 | August 1, 2021 03:30 | August 1, 2021 05:30 | 2h | 285 | 570 |
| 10 | September 18, 2021 17:00 | September 18, 2021 18:15 | 1h 15m | 285 | 356 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 31 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Alabama Electric Coop | 2021 | 6.7 hrs | - | 3.2 hrs | - |
| Pioneer Electric Coop, Inc - (AL) | 2018 | 8.3 hrs | 3.01 | 3.7 hrs | 2.37 |
| Dixie Electric Coop - (AL) | 2021 | 5.2 hrs | 1.75 | 2.0 hrs | 1.32 |
| South Alabama Elec Coop, Inc | 2021 | 2.8 hrs | 1.28 | 2.3 hrs | 1.16 |
| 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 2021; 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, 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/lowndes-county