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2018 Lowndes County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Lowndes County, MS went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 28K customer-hours (Mississippi average 3.0 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 76 Mississippi counties and 2371st 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 Lowndes 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 | April 14, 2018 15:45 | April 14, 2018 21:45 | 6h | 1,866 | 3,316 |
| 2 | July 18, 2018 00:45 | July 18, 2018 05:15 | 4h 30m | 1,329 | 2,398 |
| 3 | February 7, 2018 08:30 | February 7, 2018 10:45 | 2h 15m | 1,090 | 861 |
| 4 | July 16, 2018 19:15 | July 17, 2018 00:00 | 4h 45m | 1,057 | 269 |
| 5 | September 27, 2018 13:30 | September 27, 2018 14:45 | 1h 15m | 1,021 | 260 |
| 6 | December 10, 2018 15:00 | December 10, 2018 15:15 | 15m | 1,020 | 255 |
| 7 | April 6, 2018 21:30 | April 7, 2018 01:45 | 4h 15m | 890 | 467 |
| 8 | January 30, 2018 01:00 | January 30, 2018 02:15 | 1h 15m | 885 | 668 |
| 9 | February 7, 2018 13:45 | February 7, 2018 17:45 | 4h | 884 | 476 |
| 10 | April 22, 2018 22:00 | April 23, 2018 03:45 | 5h 45m | 849 | 1,111 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 51 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4-County Electric Power Assn | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 2.14 | 2.6 hrs | 2.06 |
| City of Columbus - (MS) | 2018 | 2.2 hrs | 1.72 | 21 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 66% of Mississippi's customers in 2018; 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, 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/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2018/mississippi/lowndes-county