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2019 Newton County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Newton County, MS went without power for an average of 7.4 hours, a total of 94K customer-hours (Mississippi average 5.8 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 78 Mississippi counties and 762nd 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 Newton 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 | October 26, 2019 10:45 | October 28, 2019 18:45 | 2d 8h | 3,305 | 59K |
| 2 | June 25, 2019 23:45 | June 26, 2019 09:45 | 10h | 1,352 | 1,741 |
| 3 | April 18, 2019 21:00 | April 19, 2019 01:00 | 4h | 1,284 | 1,028 |
| 4 | May 17, 2019 00:15 | May 17, 2019 06:30 | 6h 15m | 1,210 | 7,081 |
| 5 | May 17, 2019 19:15 | May 17, 2019 19:45 | 30m | 1,201 | 601 |
| 6 | December 10, 2019 07:30 | December 10, 2019 09:30 | 2h | 947 | 1,184 |
| 7 | December 10, 2019 10:45 | December 10, 2019 11:00 | 15m | 947 | 237 |
| 8 | December 10, 2019 11:45 | December 10, 2019 13:00 | 1h 15m | 947 | 710 |
| 9 | November 25, 2019 22:45 | November 26, 2019 00:30 | 1h 45m | 911 | 912 |
| 10 | October 15, 2019 13:45 | October 15, 2019 14:45 | 1h | 894 | 448 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 39 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 Newton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 74% of Mississippi's customers in 2019; 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, 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/newton-county