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2019 Lafayette County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Lafayette County, MS went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 90K customer-hours (Mississippi average 5.8 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 78 Mississippi counties and 1869th 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 Lafayette 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 | March 14, 2019 02:30 | March 14, 2019 17:15 | 14h 45m | 2,425 | 4,421 |
| 2 | September 9, 2019 12:30 | September 9, 2019 15:00 | 2h 30m | 1,774 | 3,118 |
| 3 | June 6, 2019 11:30 | June 7, 2019 03:15 | 15h 45m | 1,404 | 3,327 |
| 4 | May 9, 2019 11:45 | May 9, 2019 21:45 | 10h | 1,190 | 2,020 |
| 5 | May 10, 2019 12:15 | May 10, 2019 16:30 | 4h 15m | 1,181 | 2,212 |
| 6 | August 19, 2019 19:15 | August 19, 2019 20:45 | 1h 30m | 1,178 | 334 |
| 7 | November 28, 2019 04:00 | December 2, 2019 15:15 | 4d 11h | 1,155 | 2,868 |
| 8 | May 24, 2019 21:15 | May 24, 2019 21:30 | 15m | 1,108 | 277 |
| 9 | July 6, 2019 21:45 | July 8, 2019 02:15 | 1d 4h | 1,085 | 17K |
| 10 | September 26, 2019 13:45 | September 26, 2019 23:15 | 9h 30m | 1,051 | 7,751 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 47 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 74% of Mississippi's customers in 2019; 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, 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/lafayette-county