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2023 Newton County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Newton County, MS went without power for an average of 12.3 hours, a total of 156K customer-hours (Mississippi average 11.1 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 79 Mississippi counties and 694th 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 Newton 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 16, 2023 11:30 | June 20, 2023 03:45 | 3d 16h | 3,834 | 86K |
| 2 | March 26, 2023 22:00 | March 28, 2023 23:45 | 2d 1h | 2,990 | 25K |
| 3 | May 11, 2023 21:00 | May 12, 2023 02:30 | 5h 30m | 1,692 | 1,491 |
| 4 | January 16, 2023 06:15 | January 16, 2023 11:15 | 5h | 1,512 | 6,153 |
| 5 | May 25, 2023 05:15 | May 25, 2023 05:45 | 30m | 1,503 | 752 |
| 6 | May 9, 2023 05:00 | May 9, 2023 06:30 | 1h 30m | 1,130 | 977 |
| 7 | April 18, 2023 13:45 | April 18, 2023 17:15 | 3h 30m | 986 | 1,114 |
| 8 | June 8, 2023 23:45 | June 9, 2023 10:45 | 11h | 967 | 926 |
| 9 | January 10, 2023 21:15 | January 10, 2023 21:30 | 15m | 957 | 239 |
| 10 | May 10, 2023 23:30 | May 11, 2023 00:30 | 1h | 953 | 715 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 61 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi Power Co | 2023 | 4.1 hrs | 1.07 | 82 min | 0.96 |
| Southern Pine Electric Cooperative | 2023 | 27.1 hrs | 5.21 | 5.3 hrs | 3.21 |
| East Mississippi Elec Pwr Assn | 2023 | 8.7 hrs | 4.33 | 7.3 hrs | 3.94 |
| 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 n/a of Mississippi's customers in 2023; 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, 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/newton-county