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2022 Lowndes County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Lowndes County, AL went without power for an average of 9.1 hours, a total of 50K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.0 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 804th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lowndes County, 2022
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 12, 2022 19:00 | October 13, 2022 02:45 | 7h 45m | 2,729 | 3,839 |
| 2 | December 30, 2022 21:45 | December 31, 2022 15:30 | 17h 45m | 1,657 | 2,029 |
| 3 | July 22, 2022 01:00 | July 24, 2022 03:45 | 2d 2h | 1,295 | 7,167 |
| 4 | June 2, 2022 18:00 | June 2, 2022 21:30 | 3h 30m | 1,288 | 1,402 |
| 5 | March 30, 2022 19:45 | April 1, 2022 02:45 | 1d 7h | 1,036 | 4,659 |
| 6 | June 10, 2022 17:45 | June 10, 2022 18:45 | 1h | 562 | 536 |
| 7 | April 16, 2022 13:45 | April 16, 2022 15:00 | 1h 15m | 536 | 536 |
| 8 | June 16, 2022 03:00 | June 17, 2022 06:15 | 1d 3h | 523 | 1,327 |
| 9 | September 6, 2022 15:00 | September 6, 2022 15:15 | 15m | 467 | 117 |
| 10 | December 23, 2022 05:00 | December 23, 2022 17:15 | 12h 15m | 440 | 2,076 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 54 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 2022, 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 | 2022 | 3.4 hrs | - | 3.0 hrs | - |
| Pioneer Electric Coop, Inc - (AL) | 2018 | 8.3 hrs | 3.01 | 3.7 hrs | 2.37 |
| Dixie Electric Coop - (AL) | 2022 | 3.0 hrs | 1.30 | 3.0 hrs | 1.30 |
| South Alabama Elec Coop, Inc | 2022 | 3.9 hrs | 2.07 | 3.1 hrs | 1.78 |
| 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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/alabama/lowndes-county