Power outage history
Lamar County Alabama
26hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
4th most of 60 in Alabama 3.9× the national median
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 Lamar's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 46 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Lamar, hours without power per customer
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 4,330 | 70% | 3.2 d | 2.1 d | 115k |
| Feb 15, 2021 | Winter storm | 2,498 | 40% | 4.3 d | 29 h | 97k |
| Jun 7, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 3,693 | 59% | 2.3 d | 45 h | 89k |
| Dec 28, 2024 | Tornadoes | 3,551 | 57% | 2.9 d | 42 h | 76k |
| Apr 18, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 3,341 | 54% | 2.0 d | 37 h | 56k |
| Mar 4, 2025 | Windstorm | 3,036 | 49% | 27 h | 21 h | 30k |
| Apr 12, 2020 | No storm report | 2,483 | 40% | 40 h | 18 h | 30k |
| Oct 26, 2019 | Tropical Storm Olga | 3,112 | 50% | 18 h | 7.2 h | 18k |
| Feb 15, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,141 | 34% | 18 h | 16 h | 18k |
| Sep 12, 2024 | Hurricane Francine | 2,126 | 34% | 29 h | 7.8 h | 17k |
| Jul 18, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,332 | 21% | 19 h | 14 h | 16k |
| Feb 19, 2019 | No storm report | 4,443 | 71% | 17 h | 1.2 h | 15k |
| Jan 10, 2025 | Winter storm | 1,484 | 24% | 16 h | 7.2 h | 13k |
| Feb 23, 2019 | Tornadoes | 4,451 | 72% | 13 h | 1.8 h | 13k |
| Nov 5, 2022 | No storm report | 3,924 | 63% | 6.8 h | 6.8 h | 12k |
| May 2, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,441 | 23% | 23 h | 3.5 h | 11k |
| Jun 14, 2025 | Flooding | 1,486 | 24% | 18 h | 8.0 h | 11k |
| Jun 5, 2024 | No storm report | 958 | 15% | 21 h | 13 h | 10k |
| Apr 10, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,689 | 27% | 12 h | 5.2 h | 10k |
| Oct 2, 2019 | No storm report | 1,320 | 21% | 9.5 h | 13 h | 9.5k |
| Mar 30, 2022 | No storm report | 1,062 | 17% | 15 h | 5.8 h | 9.0k |
| Apr 8, 2019 | No storm report | 981 | 16% | 8.5 h | 5.2 h | 7.8k |
| Mar 15, 2025 | No storm report | 1,131 | 18% | 14 h | 12 h | 7.8k |
| Jul 12, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 2,085 | 34% | 7.8 h | 3.0 h | 7.4k |
| Jul 9, 2022 | No storm report | 968 | 16% | 19 h | 18 h | 7.3k |
| May 17, 2020 | No storm report | 4,173 | 67% | 1.8 h | 1.5 h | 6.3k |
| May 11, 2019 | No storm report | 1,681 | 27% | 4.0 h | 1.2 h | 6.3k |
| Oct 19, 2025 | No storm report | 1,566 | 25% | 18 h | 6.0 h | 5.9k |
| Jun 20, 2019 | No storm report | 775 | 12% | 14 h | 7.0 h | 5.9k |
| Dec 18, 2025 | No storm report | 886 | 14% | 15 h | 11 h | 5.9k |
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.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Lamar from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 45%
- Thunderstorms 30%
- Winter storm 9.5%
- Tornadoes 8.0%
- Tropical storm 3.6%
- Windstorm 2.7%
- Flooding 0.9%
- Heat 0.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Lamar
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 |
| Tombigbee Electric Coop, Inc | AL | 929 | 533 | 4.33 | 13.9 | 96k |
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
- Lamar (this county) 26 h
- Fayette 17 h
- Pickens 15 h
- Marion 13 h
- Lowndes, MS 1.4 h
- Monroe, MS 0.3 h
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 6,221 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 →