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2024 Winston County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Winston County, MS went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 39K customer-hours (Mississippi average 9.2 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 82 Mississippi counties and 2121st 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 Winston 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 02:30 | December 29, 2024 09:15 | 6h 45m | 3,320 | 4,906 |
| 2 | January 15, 2024 23:00 | January 16, 2024 06:15 | 7h 15m | 1,853 | 6,131 |
| 3 | April 8, 2024 18:30 | April 8, 2024 20:15 | 1h 45m | 1,848 | 1,387 |
| 4 | July 15, 2024 19:15 | July 15, 2024 23:30 | 4h 15m | 1,639 | 1,920 |
| 5 | November 20, 2024 18:15 | November 20, 2024 19:30 | 1h 15m | 982 | 997 |
| 6 | March 26, 2024 04:15 | March 26, 2024 08:00 | 3h 45m | 927 | 1,411 |
| 7 | December 28, 2024 22:30 | December 29, 2024 01:30 | 3h | 927 | 2,250 |
| 8 | December 28, 2024 14:15 | December 28, 2024 20:15 | 6h | 873 | 2,626 |
| 9 | January 12, 2024 14:45 | January 12, 2024 20:45 | 6h | 871 | 2,661 |
| 10 | September 12, 2024 06:30 | September 13, 2024 14:45 | 1d 8h | 772 | 4,630 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 28 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Winston 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Mississippi Elec Pwr Assn | 2024 | 11.1 hrs | 3.63 | 7.8 hrs | 2.81 |
| Louisville Electric System | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 13,238 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. Winston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Winston 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/winston-county