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2024 Lowndes County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Lowndes County, AL went without power for an average of 14.7 hours, a total of 81K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 66 Alabama counties and 674th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lowndes County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 10, 2024 23:45 | April 12, 2024 00:00 | 1d | 1,633 | 6,419 |
| 2 | December 29, 2024 03:15 | December 30, 2024 17:45 | 1d 14h | 1,346 | 11K |
| 3 | August 18, 2024 22:45 | August 19, 2024 07:00 | 8h 15m | 1,307 | 915 |
| 4 | May 25, 2024 18:00 | May 26, 2024 00:15 | 6h 15m | 1,268 | 1,108 |
| 5 | May 10, 2024 03:00 | May 11, 2024 00:15 | 21h 15m | 1,115 | 8,520 |
| 6 | January 9, 2024 03:15 | January 11, 2024 02:00 | 1d 22h | 1,051 | 8,779 |
| 7 | July 26, 2024 02:00 | July 26, 2024 03:30 | 1h 30m | 754 | 987 |
| 8 | July 27, 2024 06:45 | July 27, 2024 08:15 | 1h 30m | 753 | 867 |
| 9 | July 14, 2024 10:15 | July 14, 2024 12:15 | 2h | 646 | 1,270 |
| 10 | May 17, 2024 18:15 | May 18, 2024 00:30 | 6h 15m | 561 | 739 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 68 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 2024, 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 | 2024 | 4.9 hrs | - | 3.3 hrs | - |
| Pioneer Electric Coop, Inc - (AL) | 2018 | 8.3 hrs | 3.01 | 3.7 hrs | 2.37 |
| Dixie Electric Coop - (AL) | 2024 | 5.5 hrs | 1.75 | 3.3 hrs | 1.39 |
| South Alabama Elec Coop, Inc | 2024 | 4.8 hrs | 2.02 | 2.2 hrs | 1.39 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/alabama/lowndes-county