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2020 Benton County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Benton County, MS went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 9,343 customer-hours (Mississippi average 18.5 hours). That ranks 67th worst of 79 Mississippi counties and 2108th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with MS, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Mississippi customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2020
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 13, 2020 07:00 | April 13, 2020 16:00 | 9h | 590 | 1,911 |
| 2 | April 12, 2020 20:15 | April 13, 2020 02:15 | 6h | 444 | 276 |
| 3 | June 4, 2020 17:15 | June 4, 2020 20:00 | 2h 45m | 419 | 1,152 |
| 4 | August 31, 2020 19:15 | August 31, 2020 20:15 | 1h | 302 | 228 |
| 5 | December 9, 2020 09:30 | December 9, 2020 14:30 | 5h | 261 | 935 |
| 6 | August 1, 2020 00:45 | August 1, 2020 01:45 | 1h | 169 | 169 |
| 7 | March 24, 2020 15:15 | March 24, 2020 16:00 | 45m | 168 | 126 |
| 8 | April 22, 2020 03:45 | April 22, 2020 06:00 | 2h 15m | 167 | 376 |
| 9 | May 21, 2020 13:30 | May 21, 2020 14:30 | 1h | 167 | 167 |
| 10 | June 22, 2020 16:15 | June 22, 2020 20:00 | 3h 45m | 167 | 613 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 13 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 2020, 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 77% of Mississippi's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/mississippi/benton-county