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2023 Lafayette County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Lafayette County, MS went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 194K customer-hours (Mississippi average 11.1 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 79 Mississippi counties and 1419th 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 Lafayette 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 | March 3, 2023 12:30 | March 6, 2023 15:15 | 3d 2h | 5,183 | 34K |
| 2 | May 23, 2023 22:00 | May 24, 2023 13:15 | 15h 15m | 3,853 | 6,850 |
| 3 | September 6, 2023 21:15 | September 7, 2023 17:30 | 20h 15m | 3,672 | 15K |
| 4 | March 25, 2023 01:45 | March 26, 2023 03:00 | 1d 1h | 2,550 | 19K |
| 5 | August 20, 2023 14:45 | August 21, 2023 17:15 | 1d 2h | 1,547 | 2,408 |
| 6 | September 22, 2023 08:30 | September 22, 2023 15:15 | 6h 45m | 1,288 | 690 |
| 7 | August 24, 2023 17:45 | August 24, 2023 19:45 | 2h | 1,286 | 1,608 |
| 8 | January 1, 2023 00:00 | January 3, 2023 20:45 | 2d 20h | 1,095 | 1,800 |
| 9 | April 1, 2023 05:15 | April 3, 2023 19:30 | 2d 14h | 1,059 | 5,955 |
| 10 | April 5, 2023 13:45 | April 6, 2023 17:00 | 1d 3h | 1,028 | 3,486 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 60 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Lafayette 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tallahatchie Valley E P A | - | - | - | - | - |
| North East Mississippi EPA | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Oxford - (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 n/a of Mississippi's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 36,780 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. Lafayette County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lafayette 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/lafayette-county