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2018 Lafayette County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Lafayette County, MS went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 88K customer-hours (Mississippi average 3.0 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 76 Mississippi counties and 1690th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with MS, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Mississippi customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lafayette County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 22, 2018 02:45 | June 24, 2018 14:00 | 2d 11h | 7,102 | 38K |
| 2 | January 17, 2018 12:30 | January 17, 2018 17:00 | 4h 30m | 2,080 | 2,102 |
| 3 | June 30, 2018 21:45 | July 1, 2018 05:00 | 7h 15m | 1,433 | 1,371 |
| 4 | August 20, 2018 23:15 | August 22, 2018 02:00 | 1d 2h | 1,315 | 3,582 |
| 5 | June 25, 2018 12:15 | June 25, 2018 17:30 | 5h 15m | 1,091 | 2,723 |
| 6 | October 12, 2018 15:30 | October 12, 2018 18:15 | 2h 45m | 1,040 | 2,351 |
| 7 | November 14, 2018 20:45 | November 14, 2018 21:45 | 1h | 1,040 | 262 |
| 8 | April 4, 2018 00:15 | April 4, 2018 15:15 | 15h | 983 | 4,249 |
| 9 | May 1, 2018 18:15 | May 1, 2018 19:45 | 1h 30m | 847 | 850 |
| 10 | July 12, 2018 19:30 | July 12, 2018 21:15 | 1h 45m | 843 | 643 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 50 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Lafayette County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tallahatchie Valley E P A | - | - | - | - | - |
| North East Mississippi EPA | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Oxford - (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 66% of Mississippi's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 36,780 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. Lafayette County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lafayette County, MS annual power outage report, 2018, 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2018/mississippi/lafayette-county