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2018 Newton County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Newton County, MS went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 39K customer-hours (Mississippi average 3.0 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 76 Mississippi counties and 1493rd 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 Newton 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 | May 13, 2018 16:00 | May 13, 2018 16:15 | 15m | 1,606 | 402 |
| 2 | July 31, 2018 15:30 | August 1, 2018 07:00 | 15h 30m | 1,366 | 11K |
| 3 | September 4, 2018 23:30 | September 5, 2018 13:45 | 14h 15m | 1,305 | 2,735 |
| 4 | August 18, 2018 17:30 | August 18, 2018 19:45 | 2h 15m | 1,187 | 1,189 |
| 5 | September 26, 2018 17:30 | September 26, 2018 21:15 | 3h 45m | 936 | 1,912 |
| 6 | May 23, 2018 22:15 | May 24, 2018 00:30 | 2h 15m | 906 | 614 |
| 7 | September 18, 2018 16:30 | September 18, 2018 19:30 | 3h | 904 | 1,472 |
| 8 | September 27, 2018 16:15 | September 27, 2018 19:45 | 3h 30m | 798 | 402 |
| 9 | September 23, 2018 12:45 | September 23, 2018 14:45 | 2h | 738 | 738 |
| 10 | February 7, 2018 07:00 | February 7, 2018 08:15 | 1h 15m | 562 | 515 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 43 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi Power Co | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.10 | 73 min | 0.94 |
| East Mississippi Elec Pwr Assn | 2018 | 3.3 hrs | 2.47 | 3.3 hrs | 2.47 |
| 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 66% of Mississippi's customers in 2018; 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, 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/newton-county