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2022 Newton County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Newton County, MS went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 65K customer-hours (Mississippi average 6.3 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 79 Mississippi counties and 1391st of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with MS, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Mississippi customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Newton County, 2022
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 14, 2022 01:45 | April 15, 2022 01:30 | 23h 45m | 1,801 | 6,795 |
| 2 | October 24, 2022 20:15 | October 24, 2022 22:30 | 2h 15m | 1,645 | 415 |
| 3 | February 17, 2022 16:45 | February 18, 2022 01:45 | 9h | 1,641 | 2,466 |
| 4 | May 17, 2022 19:30 | May 17, 2022 20:00 | 30m | 1,511 | 756 |
| 5 | August 8, 2022 21:30 | August 9, 2022 01:30 | 4h | 1,497 | 471 |
| 6 | August 21, 2022 15:30 | August 21, 2022 16:45 | 1h 15m | 1,281 | 1,244 |
| 7 | December 14, 2022 18:45 | December 15, 2022 04:15 | 9h 30m | 1,087 | 4,696 |
| 8 | December 28, 2022 16:30 | December 28, 2022 22:45 | 6h 15m | 1,031 | 2,038 |
| 9 | May 18, 2022 15:30 | May 18, 2022 16:30 | 1h | 992 | 950 |
| 10 | December 18, 2022 11:15 | December 18, 2022 13:30 | 2h 15m | 950 | 2,071 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 61 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 2022, 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 | 2022 | 1.7 hrs | 1.08 | 78 min | 0.97 |
| East Mississippi Elec Pwr Assn | 2022 | 53 min | 2.50 | 3 min | 2.32 |
| 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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/mississippi/newton-county