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2023 Lowndes County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Lowndes County, AL went without power for an average of 29.9 hours, a total of 164K customer-hours (Alabama average 6.3 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 241st of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lowndes County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 14, 2023 20:45 | June 19, 2023 23:30 | 5d 2h | 5,304 | 122K |
| 2 | July 15, 2023 16:30 | July 15, 2023 18:00 | 1h 30m | 1,893 | 885 |
| 3 | January 12, 2023 18:30 | January 13, 2023 16:45 | 22h 15m | 997 | 4,811 |
| 4 | February 17, 2023 07:15 | February 17, 2023 13:45 | 6h 30m | 628 | 1,735 |
| 5 | November 21, 2023 19:15 | November 21, 2023 20:15 | 1h | 537 | 185 |
| 6 | April 30, 2023 05:00 | May 1, 2023 06:15 | 1d 1h | 498 | 3,443 |
| 7 | March 27, 2023 02:30 | March 28, 2023 16:45 | 1d 14h | 429 | 2,786 |
| 8 | October 19, 2023 21:45 | October 20, 2023 01:00 | 3h 15m | 413 | 724 |
| 9 | August 28, 2023 15:45 | August 28, 2023 23:15 | 7h 30m | 412 | 207 |
| 10 | June 20, 2023 10:30 | June 20, 2023 19:00 | 8h 30m | 411 | 134 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 51 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 9.5 hrs | - | 4.7 hrs | - |
| Pioneer Electric Coop, Inc - (AL) | 2018 | 8.3 hrs | 3.01 | 3.7 hrs | 2.37 |
| Dixie Electric Coop - (AL) | 2023 | 4.9 hrs | 1.70 | 3.0 hrs | 1.41 |
| South Alabama Elec Coop, Inc | 2023 | 17.8 hrs | 4.16 | 5.4 hrs | 1.98 |
| 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 n/a of Alabama's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/alabama/lowndes-county