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2024 Smith County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Smith County, MS went without power for an average of 26.4 hours, a total of 190K customer-hours (Mississippi average 9.2 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 82 Mississippi counties and 366th 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 Smith 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 29, 2024 00:45 | January 1, 2025 00:00 | 2d 23h | 5,164 | 69K |
| 2 | May 10, 2024 01:00 | May 11, 2024 03:45 | 1d 2h | 4,177 | 19K |
| 3 | September 11, 2024 23:45 | September 13, 2024 19:15 | 1d 19h | 3,694 | 19K |
| 4 | May 13, 2024 08:15 | May 14, 2024 07:15 | 23h | 3,374 | 36K |
| 5 | March 25, 2024 15:00 | March 25, 2024 15:15 | 15m | 2,604 | 651 |
| 6 | May 8, 2024 12:00 | May 8, 2024 12:15 | 15m | 1,564 | 391 |
| 7 | August 1, 2024 22:30 | August 2, 2024 00:15 | 1h 45m | 1,553 | 2,573 |
| 8 | June 4, 2024 23:45 | June 7, 2024 01:45 | 2d 2h | 1,218 | 3,496 |
| 9 | January 12, 2024 14:45 | January 12, 2024 20:30 | 5h 45m | 865 | 660 |
| 10 | August 29, 2024 17:15 | August 30, 2024 01:15 | 8h | 864 | 824 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 58 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Smith 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entergy Mississippi LLC | 2024 | 11.5 hrs | 2.31 | 5.5 hrs | 1.75 |
| 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 |
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 ÷ 7,211 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. Smith County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Smith 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/smith-county