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2017 Lowndes County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Lowndes County, MS went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 22K customer-hours (Mississippi average 6.6 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 77 Mississippi counties and 2210th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with MS, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Mississippi customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lowndes County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 10, 2017 18:45 | July 10, 2017 19:45 | 1h | 3,666 | 1,518 |
| 2 | January 23, 2017 08:45 | January 23, 2017 10:45 | 2h | 1,010 | 515 |
| 3 | March 23, 2017 15:00 | March 23, 2017 18:30 | 3h 30m | 1,001 | 507 |
| 4 | October 23, 2017 14:15 | October 23, 2017 15:00 | 45m | 948 | 475 |
| 5 | October 20, 2017 14:45 | October 20, 2017 16:15 | 1h 30m | 912 | 348 |
| 6 | April 30, 2017 16:45 | May 1, 2017 00:15 | 7h 30m | 909 | 2,089 |
| 7 | May 12, 2017 22:15 | May 12, 2017 23:30 | 1h 15m | 893 | 617 |
| 8 | May 1, 2017 14:30 | May 1, 2017 20:15 | 5h 45m | 808 | 529 |
| 9 | May 24, 2017 12:45 | May 24, 2017 17:15 | 4h 30m | 791 | 245 |
| 10 | April 3, 2017 02:00 | April 3, 2017 10:00 | 8h | 788 | 2,108 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 35 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 2.4 hrs | 1.95 | 2.2 hrs | 1.87 |
| City of Columbus - (MS) | 2017 | 31 min | 0.56 | 22 min | 0.33 |
| Monroe County Elec Power Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/mississippi/lowndes-county