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2020 Newton County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Newton County, MS went without power for an average of 7.2 hours, a total of 91K customer-hours (Mississippi average 18.5 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 79 Mississippi counties and 1056th 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 Newton 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 | March 4, 2020 09:30 | March 6, 2020 02:45 | 1d 17h | 3,149 | 28K |
| 2 | April 13, 2020 01:00 | April 13, 2020 22:30 | 21h 30m | 1,771 | 15K |
| 3 | June 5, 2020 23:15 | June 6, 2020 14:00 | 14h 45m | 1,586 | 7,901 |
| 4 | May 3, 2020 05:45 | May 3, 2020 07:00 | 1h 15m | 1,406 | 1,758 |
| 5 | March 22, 2020 21:45 | March 23, 2020 02:00 | 4h 15m | 970 | 1,622 |
| 6 | June 29, 2020 11:00 | June 29, 2020 15:15 | 4h 15m | 924 | 1,270 |
| 7 | May 22, 2020 22:15 | May 23, 2020 04:45 | 6h 30m | 915 | 867 |
| 8 | October 27, 2020 13:30 | October 27, 2020 14:30 | 1h | 895 | 230 |
| 9 | July 2, 2020 01:45 | July 2, 2020 10:30 | 8h 45m | 856 | 2,454 |
| 10 | June 8, 2020 00:00 | June 8, 2020 07:30 | 7h 30m | 814 | 924 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 59 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi Power Co | 2020 | 29.7 hrs | 1.95 | 87 min | 0.95 |
| East Mississippi Elec Pwr Assn | 2020 | 4.2 hrs | 2.13 | 3.2 hrs | 1.82 |
| 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 77% of Mississippi's customers in 2020; 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, 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/newton-county