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2021 Newton County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Newton County, MS went without power for an average of 75.5 hours, a total of 959K customer-hours (Mississippi average 17.2 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 78 Mississippi counties and 110th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with MS, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Mississippi customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Newton County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 4, 2021 20:15 | May 7, 2021 16:45 | 2d 20h | 10,028 | 215K |
| 2 | February 15, 2021 14:00 | February 25, 2021 21:45 | 10d 7h | 8,506 | 692K |
| 3 | March 25, 2021 10:45 | March 25, 2021 22:00 | 11h 15m | 2,120 | 2,584 |
| 4 | September 1, 2021 22:30 | September 2, 2021 12:15 | 13h 45m | 1,777 | 7,794 |
| 5 | September 15, 2021 06:45 | September 15, 2021 11:00 | 4h 15m | 1,557 | 3,483 |
| 6 | August 30, 2021 09:00 | August 31, 2021 04:00 | 19h | 1,227 | 5,391 |
| 7 | June 13, 2021 20:30 | June 15, 2021 15:15 | 1d 18h | 1,156 | 7,785 |
| 8 | December 1, 2021 16:00 | December 1, 2021 16:15 | 15m | 980 | 245 |
| 9 | December 2, 2021 16:15 | December 2, 2021 17:00 | 45m | 935 | 235 |
| 10 | June 28, 2021 00:30 | June 28, 2021 01:15 | 45m | 931 | 698 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 43 reached 100+ customers, 7 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 2021, 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 | 2021 | 5.9 hrs | 1.65 | 82 min | 1.01 |
| East Mississippi Elec Pwr Assn | 2021 | 58 min | 3.40 | 3 min | 1.53 |
| 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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/mississippi/newton-county