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2019 Benton County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Benton County, MS went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 9,381 customer-hours (Mississippi average 5.8 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 78 Mississippi counties and 1898th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with MS, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Mississippi customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 11, 2019 13:30 | September 11, 2019 15:00 | 1h 30m | 434 | 543 |
| 2 | October 26, 2019 17:45 | October 26, 2019 19:45 | 2h | 429 | 644 |
| 3 | October 26, 2019 22:30 | October 27, 2019 14:00 | 15h 30m | 429 | 6,120 |
| 4 | June 27, 2019 16:30 | June 27, 2019 21:30 | 5h | 169 | 290 |
| 5 | August 29, 2019 13:15 | August 29, 2019 19:30 | 6h 15m | 134 | 818 |
| 6 | June 23, 2019 17:45 | June 23, 2019 19:45 | 2h | 53 | 70 |
| 7 | October 27, 2019 21:00 | October 27, 2019 22:15 | 1h 15m | 40 | 50 |
| 8 | October 7, 2019 05:15 | October 7, 2019 08:15 | 3h | 38 | 114 |
| 9 | December 19, 2019 15:00 | December 19, 2019 23:15 | 8h 15m | 37 | 305 |
| 10 | November 27, 2019 02:45 | November 27, 2019 06:15 | 3h 30m | 27 | 88 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 5 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of New Albany - (MS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Holly Springs | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 74% of Mississippi's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 3,973 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. Benton County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, MS annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/mississippi/benton-county