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2024 Newton County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Newton County, MS went without power for an average of 8.0 hours, a total of 102K customer-hours (Mississippi average 9.2 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 82 Mississippi counties and 1123rd 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 Newton 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 10, 2024 04:45 | May 13, 2024 21:45 | 3d 17h | 4,048 | 25K |
| 2 | June 5, 2024 22:15 | June 6, 2024 12:30 | 14h 15m | 1,804 | 9,460 |
| 3 | June 16, 2024 01:30 | June 16, 2024 02:30 | 1h | 1,555 | 1,553 |
| 4 | November 20, 2024 10:15 | November 20, 2024 10:45 | 30m | 1,529 | 406 |
| 5 | March 25, 2024 13:15 | March 25, 2024 15:45 | 2h 30m | 1,512 | 380 |
| 6 | July 18, 2024 06:45 | July 18, 2024 09:00 | 2h 15m | 1,261 | 1,311 |
| 7 | July 1, 2024 00:00 | July 1, 2024 09:00 | 9h | 1,253 | 2,317 |
| 8 | April 10, 2024 04:15 | April 13, 2024 22:30 | 3d 18h | 1,204 | 19K |
| 9 | December 29, 2024 02:15 | December 31, 2024 01:00 | 1d 22h | 1,198 | 12K |
| 10 | September 12, 2024 05:00 | September 13, 2024 01:45 | 20h 45m | 1,181 | 8,652 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 39 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 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 |
| East Mississippi Elec Pwr Assn | 2024 | 11.1 hrs | 3.63 | 7.8 hrs | 2.81 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/newton-county