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2016 Newton County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Newton County, MS went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 37K customer-hours (Mississippi average 3.1 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 71 Mississippi counties and 1012th 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 Newton 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 | May 31, 2016 22:00 | June 1, 2016 03:15 | 5h 15m | 1,549 | 5,661 |
| 2 | June 13, 2016 22:00 | June 14, 2016 00:00 | 2h | 1,299 | 1,745 |
| 3 | June 17, 2016 21:45 | June 18, 2016 04:45 | 7h | 1,058 | 4,226 |
| 4 | February 15, 2016 21:00 | February 16, 2016 09:15 | 12h 15m | 1,013 | 4,559 |
| 5 | July 9, 2016 20:30 | July 10, 2016 00:45 | 4h 15m | 893 | 838 |
| 6 | July 6, 2016 22:45 | July 7, 2016 07:00 | 8h 15m | 737 | 2,549 |
| 7 | November 28, 2016 16:30 | November 29, 2016 08:30 | 16h | 706 | 3,483 |
| 8 | September 21, 2016 15:45 | September 21, 2016 16:45 | 1h | 557 | 456 |
| 9 | June 29, 2016 14:00 | June 29, 2016 15:00 | 1h | 519 | 130 |
| 10 | July 15, 2016 11:15 | July 15, 2016 15:15 | 4h | 518 | 1,532 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 27 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Newton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi Power Co | 2016 | 1.6 hrs | 1.21 | 76 min | 1.05 |
| East Mississippi Elec Pwr Assn | 2016 | 4.5 hrs | 2.89 | 3.9 hrs | 2.71 |
| Southern Pine Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| Central Electric Power Assn - (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 ÷ 12,693 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. Newton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newton 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/newton-county