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2023 Lowndes County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Lowndes County, MS went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 40K customer-hours (Mississippi average 11.1 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 79 Mississippi counties and 2595th 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 Lowndes 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 | August 5, 2023 21:45 | August 6, 2023 02:45 | 5h | 3,173 | 2,664 |
| 2 | March 3, 2023 13:45 | March 4, 2023 20:45 | 1d 7h | 2,056 | 7,054 |
| 3 | January 12, 2023 19:15 | January 12, 2023 21:00 | 1h 45m | 1,342 | 1,210 |
| 4 | May 20, 2023 22:00 | May 21, 2023 00:15 | 2h 15m | 1,173 | 1,057 |
| 5 | November 23, 2023 12:45 | November 23, 2023 16:30 | 3h 45m | 1,095 | 3,641 |
| 6 | May 16, 2023 00:45 | May 16, 2023 01:45 | 1h | 1,084 | 550 |
| 7 | July 14, 2023 01:00 | July 14, 2023 04:30 | 3h 30m | 1,044 | 1,852 |
| 8 | January 17, 2023 16:45 | January 17, 2023 18:00 | 1h 15m | 1,035 | 271 |
| 9 | March 28, 2023 22:30 | March 29, 2023 00:15 | 1h 45m | 924 | 925 |
| 10 | January 4, 2023 05:00 | January 4, 2023 08:30 | 3h 30m | 843 | 2,778 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 32 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 Lowndes 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4-County Electric Power Assn | 2022 | 3.9 hrs | 3.50 | 2.4 hrs | 2.10 |
| City of Columbus - (MS) | 2023 | 86 min | 0.91 | 67 min | 0.77 |
| Monroe County Elec Power Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 33,297 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. Lowndes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lowndes 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/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2023/mississippi/lowndes-county