Power Out Map
– 0% of Lowndes out 0 customers out in Alabama

Power outage history

Lowndes County Alabama

20hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

9th most of 60 in Alabama 3.0× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Zeta · Oct 29, 2020 92% of customers out · 90% back in 2.6 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 20h / yr State average 7.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 7.3 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.5days Hurricane Zeta, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 50% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 2.3 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 5,496 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Lowndes's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.3 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Lowndes, hours without power per customer

LowndesUS median countyAlabama average
0 20 40 60 80 4.0 ’15 1.8 ’16 4.1 ’17 11 ’18 7.1 ’19 54 ’20 12 ’21 9.1 ’22 30 ’23 15 ’24 20 ’25 AL 7.0 US 6.6

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Oct 28, 2020 Hurricane Zeta 5,046 92% 5.5 d 2.6 d 176k
Jun 14, 2023 Thunderstorms 5,304 97% 3.2 d 31 h 118k
Sep 16, 2020 Hurricane Sally 2,666 49% 38 h 31 h 44k
May 4, 2021 No storm report 2,375 43% 43 h 25 h 35k
Feb 16, 2025 No storm report 3,431 62% 21 h 14 h 34k
Jun 28, 2018 No storm report 2,196 40% 30 h 25 h 21k
Apr 12, 2020 No storm report 1,885 34% 33 h 16 h 19k
Mar 4, 2025 No storm report 1,065 19% 29 h 3.2 h 11k
Dec 28, 2024 Tornadoes 1,346 24% 21 h 15 h 11k
Jun 17, 2025 No storm report 1,555 28% 9.8 h 11 h 8.6k
Jan 9, 2024 No storm report 1,051 19% 23 h 8.5 h 8.5k
May 10, 2024 No storm report 1,115 20% 12 h 6.5 h 8.2k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +8h 90% by +16h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Lowndes from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 50%
  • Tropical storm 29%
  • Thunderstorms 18%
  • Tornadoes 1.9%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Lowndes

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Alabama territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Alabama Power Co Investor Owned 410 108 2.06 17.9 1.3M
Pioneer Electric Coop, Inc AL 227 227 2.21 16.4 146k
Central Alabama Electric Coop Cooperative 469 189 – 17.2 46k
Dixie Electric Coop Cooperative 258 118 2.04 15.4 22k
South Alabama Elec Coop, Inc Cooperative 235 159 2.35 15.8 17k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Alabama

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Alabama counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 5,496 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →