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2017 Newton County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Newton County, MS went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Mississippi average 6.6 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 77 Mississippi counties and 1537th 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 Newton 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 | December 8, 2017 12:00 | December 9, 2017 14:15 | 1d 2h | 1,612 | 8,162 |
| 2 | November 18, 2017 23:00 | November 19, 2017 08:30 | 9h 30m | 1,473 | 3,625 |
| 3 | August 9, 2017 02:15 | August 9, 2017 05:00 | 2h 45m | 1,187 | 871 |
| 4 | April 10, 2017 20:00 | April 10, 2017 21:15 | 1h 15m | 801 | 402 |
| 5 | April 25, 2017 07:30 | April 25, 2017 08:00 | 30m | 801 | 215 |
| 6 | June 1, 2017 02:00 | June 1, 2017 04:00 | 2h | 739 | 1,294 |
| 7 | April 3, 2017 09:45 | April 3, 2017 19:15 | 9h 30m | 571 | 3,850 |
| 8 | June 16, 2017 23:15 | June 17, 2017 06:00 | 6h 45m | 527 | 1,829 |
| 9 | October 14, 2017 18:00 | October 14, 2017 20:30 | 2h 30m | 320 | 320 |
| 10 | May 5, 2017 21:15 | May 5, 2017 22:30 | 1h 15m | 315 | 201 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 33 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 Newton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi Power Co | 2017 | 4.0 hrs | 1.30 | 78 min | 0.93 |
| East Mississippi Elec Pwr Assn | 2017 | 3.9 hrs | 2.76 | 3.5 hrs | 2.64 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/newton-county