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2024 Lafayette County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Lafayette County, MS went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 132K customer-hours (Mississippi average 9.2 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 82 Mississippi counties and 1950th 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 Lafayette 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 | May 4, 2024 09:45 | May 6, 2024 20:45 | 2d 11h | 3,493 | 9,146 |
| 2 | February 7, 2024 13:00 | February 7, 2024 22:15 | 9h 15m | 3,139 | 3,011 |
| 3 | April 9, 2024 21:30 | April 11, 2024 19:45 | 1d 22h | 2,297 | 13K |
| 4 | September 27, 2024 12:15 | September 27, 2024 22:45 | 10h 30m | 1,869 | 1,809 |
| 5 | October 30, 2024 22:00 | November 1, 2024 14:30 | 1d 16h | 1,649 | 2,361 |
| 6 | September 11, 2024 19:15 | September 13, 2024 12:00 | 1d 16h | 1,196 | 6,013 |
| 7 | November 14, 2024 23:45 | November 15, 2024 17:00 | 17h 15m | 1,010 | 1,367 |
| 8 | January 9, 2024 14:45 | January 10, 2024 20:30 | 1d 5h | 978 | 1,085 |
| 9 | January 12, 2024 18:45 | January 13, 2024 17:15 | 22h 30m | 889 | 1,013 |
| 10 | January 12, 2024 07:00 | January 12, 2024 17:30 | 10h 30m | 877 | 1,358 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 51 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 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 Oxford - (MS) | 2024 | 47 min | 0.80 | 35 min | 0.72 |
| Tallahatchie Valley E P A | - | - | - | - | - |
| North East Mississippi EPA | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 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, 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/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2024/mississippi/lafayette-county