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2024 Benton County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Benton County, MS went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Mississippi average 9.2 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 82 Mississippi counties and 1604th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with MS, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Mississippi customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 20, 2024 16:30 | December 20, 2024 17:30 | 1h | 442 | 442 |
| 2 | August 30, 2024 23:15 | August 31, 2024 00:45 | 1h 30m | 440 | 660 |
| 3 | May 24, 2024 22:45 | May 24, 2024 23:45 | 1h | 439 | 438 |
| 4 | November 19, 2024 08:15 | November 19, 2024 13:00 | 4h 45m | 438 | 1,852 |
| 5 | January 12, 2024 21:30 | January 12, 2024 22:30 | 1h | 431 | 108 |
| 6 | September 26, 2024 18:45 | September 27, 2024 05:00 | 10h 15m | 430 | 4,181 |
| 7 | October 29, 2024 10:45 | October 29, 2024 19:45 | 9h | 388 | 3,473 |
| 8 | July 9, 2024 02:00 | July 11, 2024 21:15 | 2d 19h | 355 | 913 |
| 9 | January 9, 2024 03:45 | January 9, 2024 06:30 | 2h 45m | 323 | 618 |
| 10 | February 10, 2024 15:45 | February 10, 2024 16:30 | 45m | 175 | 116 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 15 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 2024, 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/mississippi/benton-county