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2019 Lowndes County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Lowndes County, MS went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 64K customer-hours (Mississippi average 5.8 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 78 Mississippi counties and 2076th 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 Lowndes 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 | April 18, 2019 22:15 | April 20, 2019 18:45 | 1d 20h | 3,383 | 31K |
| 2 | October 15, 2019 18:15 | October 15, 2019 18:30 | 15m | 3,100 | 775 |
| 3 | February 23, 2019 22:00 | February 24, 2019 07:45 | 9h 45m | 2,517 | 6,168 |
| 4 | October 26, 2019 13:30 | October 27, 2019 01:15 | 11h 45m | 2,014 | 3,848 |
| 5 | October 11, 2019 18:30 | October 11, 2019 19:15 | 45m | 1,427 | 359 |
| 6 | August 25, 2019 23:45 | August 26, 2019 03:30 | 3h 45m | 961 | 1,072 |
| 7 | July 19, 2019 20:45 | July 19, 2019 22:45 | 2h | 931 | 1,209 |
| 8 | May 19, 2019 08:00 | May 19, 2019 14:00 | 6h | 884 | 1,614 |
| 9 | September 26, 2019 21:45 | September 27, 2019 01:00 | 3h 15m | 883 | 1,430 |
| 10 | November 12, 2019 06:45 | November 12, 2019 13:30 | 6h 45m | 815 | 671 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 40 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 74% of Mississippi's customers in 2019; 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, 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/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2019/mississippi/lowndes-county