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2020 Union County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Union County, MS went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Mississippi average 18.5 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 79 Mississippi counties and 1981st 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 Union 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 | August 10, 2020 20:45 | August 10, 2020 21:45 | 1h | 1,454 | 366 |
| 2 | October 8, 2020 12:45 | October 8, 2020 13:30 | 45m | 602 | 302 |
| 3 | April 12, 2020 20:15 | April 15, 2020 15:00 | 2d 18h | 504 | 5,561 |
| 4 | March 6, 2020 14:45 | March 6, 2020 18:45 | 4h | 471 | 1,646 |
| 5 | February 12, 2020 21:15 | February 13, 2020 01:15 | 4h | 434 | 662 |
| 6 | August 12, 2020 16:15 | August 12, 2020 21:15 | 5h | 283 | 1,276 |
| 7 | April 23, 2020 02:45 | April 23, 2020 13:45 | 11h | 221 | 263 |
| 8 | January 11, 2020 04:45 | January 11, 2020 19:15 | 14h 30m | 213 | 757 |
| 9 | May 28, 2020 20:00 | May 28, 2020 23:15 | 3h 15m | 187 | 557 |
| 10 | June 5, 2020 20:00 | June 6, 2020 04:00 | 8h | 178 | 706 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 18 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Union 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) | - | - | - | - | - |
| North East Mississippi EPA | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 7,351 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. Union County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county