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2016 Lowndes County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lowndes County, MS went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 6,349 customer-hours (Mississippi average 3.1 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 71 Mississippi counties and 2171st of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with MS, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Mississippi customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lowndes County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 12, 2016 18:30 | February 12, 2016 18:45 | 15m | 2,306 | 577 |
| 2 | December 13, 2016 17:15 | December 13, 2016 19:15 | 2h | 1,165 | 601 |
| 3 | March 11, 2016 04:15 | March 11, 2016 06:30 | 2h 15m | 968 | 2,163 |
| 4 | February 22, 2016 16:00 | February 22, 2016 17:30 | 1h 30m | 760 | 211 |
| 5 | February 2, 2016 00:45 | February 2, 2016 01:15 | 30m | 649 | 163 |
| 6 | December 12, 2016 21:30 | December 13, 2016 00:15 | 2h 45m | 379 | 192 |
| 7 | February 23, 2016 13:45 | February 23, 2016 16:30 | 2h 45m | 370 | 150 |
| 8 | November 28, 2016 20:00 | November 29, 2016 04:00 | 8h | 235 | 653 |
| 9 | December 3, 2016 19:30 | December 3, 2016 21:30 | 2h | 121 | 201 |
| 10 | December 18, 2016 07:45 | December 18, 2016 15:00 | 7h 15m | 76 | 285 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 9 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 2016, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4-County Electric Power Assn | 2016 | 3.4 hrs | 2.36 | 2.8 hrs | 2.10 |
| Monroe County Elec Power Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Columbus - (MS) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 Mississippi's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 33,297 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, MS annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/mississippi/lowndes-county