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2020 Lowndes County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lowndes County, MS went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Mississippi average 18.5 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 79 Mississippi counties and 2700th 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 Lowndes 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 12, 2020 21:00 | April 14, 2020 22:30 | 2d 1h | 2,095 | 9,844 |
| 2 | February 26, 2020 17:45 | February 26, 2020 18:00 | 15m | 1,205 | 301 |
| 3 | June 3, 2020 18:30 | June 3, 2020 20:30 | 2h | 1,032 | 287 |
| 4 | November 21, 2020 16:45 | November 21, 2020 20:00 | 3h 15m | 1,031 | 557 |
| 5 | October 6, 2020 18:45 | October 6, 2020 21:00 | 2h 15m | 1,007 | 797 |
| 6 | March 27, 2020 18:00 | March 27, 2020 19:30 | 1h 30m | 1,006 | 288 |
| 7 | June 11, 2020 18:30 | June 11, 2020 19:15 | 45m | 792 | 203 |
| 8 | July 12, 2020 18:15 | July 12, 2020 22:45 | 4h 30m | 713 | 438 |
| 9 | January 11, 2020 15:15 | January 12, 2020 02:15 | 11h | 663 | 2,007 |
| 10 | June 23, 2020 21:45 | June 24, 2020 03:15 | 5h 30m | 517 | 501 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 33 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4-County Electric Power Assn | 2020 | 3.9 hrs | 1.75 | 1.8 hrs | 1.36 |
| City of Columbus - (MS) | 2020 | 2.5 hrs | 1.16 | 29 min | 0.50 |
| 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 77% of Mississippi's customers in 2020; 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, 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/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/mississippi/lowndes-county