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2024 Lowndes County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Lowndes County, MS went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 39K customer-hours (Mississippi average 9.2 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 82 Mississippi counties and 2665th 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 Lowndes 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 | July 7, 2024 02:15 | July 7, 2024 03:00 | 45m | 3,190 | 804 |
| 2 | December 28, 2024 20:45 | December 29, 2024 22:45 | 1d 2h | 2,673 | 11K |
| 3 | September 12, 2024 10:30 | September 13, 2024 03:30 | 17h | 1,943 | 8,484 |
| 4 | June 5, 2024 23:00 | June 6, 2024 05:15 | 6h 15m | 1,402 | 1,555 |
| 5 | July 24, 2024 00:00 | July 24, 2024 00:45 | 45m | 1,040 | 266 |
| 6 | July 15, 2024 19:00 | July 15, 2024 21:15 | 2h 15m | 974 | 499 |
| 7 | November 19, 2024 04:45 | November 19, 2024 12:30 | 7h 45m | 800 | 1,353 |
| 8 | September 27, 2024 19:15 | September 27, 2024 21:00 | 1h 45m | 473 | 257 |
| 9 | August 19, 2024 22:30 | August 19, 2024 23:30 | 1h | 407 | 407 |
| 10 | May 9, 2024 21:45 | May 10, 2024 06:30 | 8h 45m | 401 | 1,250 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 30 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4-County Electric Power Assn | 2022 | 3.9 hrs | 3.50 | 2.4 hrs | 2.10 |
| City of Columbus - (MS) | 2024 | 53 min | 0.76 | 30 min | 0.48 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/lowndes-county