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2023 Benton County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Benton County, MS went without power for an average of 12.4 hours, a total of 49K customer-hours (Mississippi average 11.1 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 79 Mississippi counties and 690th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with MS, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Mississippi customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 26, 2023 01:00 | June 28, 2023 23:30 | 2d 22h | 854 | 27K |
| 2 | March 3, 2023 14:45 | March 5, 2023 22:30 | 2d 7h | 802 | 4,414 |
| 3 | December 10, 2023 04:30 | December 10, 2023 05:30 | 1h | 439 | 329 |
| 4 | February 16, 2023 20:00 | February 17, 2023 14:45 | 18h 45m | 437 | 4,270 |
| 5 | May 18, 2023 13:45 | May 18, 2023 14:45 | 1h | 436 | 436 |
| 6 | June 18, 2023 11:30 | June 18, 2023 18:45 | 7h 15m | 435 | 450 |
| 7 | September 27, 2023 13:30 | September 27, 2023 22:00 | 8h 30m | 423 | 3,499 |
| 8 | March 2, 2023 01:00 | March 2, 2023 05:45 | 4h 45m | 324 | 268 |
| 9 | February 2, 2023 03:00 | February 7, 2023 21:15 | 5d 18h | 295 | 4,886 |
| 10 | July 11, 2023 14:45 | July 11, 2023 15:30 | 45m | 287 | 144 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 20 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Holly Springs | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Mississippi's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 3,973 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. Benton County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, MS annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/mississippi/benton-county