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2024 Lamar County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Lamar County, MS went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 141K customer-hours (Mississippi average 9.2 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 82 Mississippi counties and 1712th 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 Lamar 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 13, 2024 09:15 | May 14, 2024 19:15 | 1d 10h | 5,042 | 30K |
| 2 | January 24, 2024 13:30 | January 24, 2024 21:30 | 8h | 3,409 | 1,717 |
| 3 | November 14, 2024 04:00 | November 14, 2024 19:45 | 15h 45m | 3,250 | 3,629 |
| 4 | January 9, 2024 00:15 | January 9, 2024 23:00 | 22h 45m | 3,180 | 12K |
| 5 | December 27, 2024 19:45 | December 30, 2024 12:15 | 2d 16h | 2,552 | 8,081 |
| 6 | October 2, 2024 10:00 | October 2, 2024 10:45 | 45m | 2,337 | 1,170 |
| 7 | January 17, 2024 10:15 | January 17, 2024 20:00 | 9h 45m | 2,328 | 12K |
| 8 | June 3, 2024 15:45 | June 6, 2024 19:30 | 3d 3h | 2,011 | 4,797 |
| 9 | January 10, 2024 15:00 | January 10, 2024 19:45 | 4h 45m | 1,784 | 3,099 |
| 10 | September 11, 2024 23:45 | September 12, 2024 23:30 | 23h 45m | 1,694 | 8,961 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 69 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Lamar 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi Power Co | 2024 | 2.1 hrs | 1.12 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| Southern Pine Electric Cooperative | 2024 | 16.7 hrs | 6.29 | 5.4 hrs | 4.48 |
| Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn | 2024 | 6.2 hrs | 3.32 | 4.0 hrs | 2.91 |
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 ÷ 31,120 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. Lamar County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lamar 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/lamar-county