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2025 Benton County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Benton County, MS went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Mississippi average 7.5 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 81 Mississippi counties and 1491st of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with MS, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Mississippi customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 13, 2025 19:00 | August 13, 2025 22:00 | 3h | 438 | 1,269 |
| 2 | June 14, 2025 19:15 | June 14, 2025 21:15 | 2h | 368 | 268 |
| 3 | May 19, 2025 04:45 | May 19, 2025 17:15 | 12h 30m | 243 | 1,121 |
| 4 | August 1, 2025 00:15 | August 1, 2025 08:00 | 7h 45m | 204 | 855 |
| 5 | October 18, 2025 04:15 | October 18, 2025 17:45 | 13h 30m | 147 | 1,979 |
| 6 | January 31, 2025 07:15 | January 31, 2025 09:15 | 2h | 145 | 281 |
| 7 | June 30, 2025 20:15 | June 30, 2025 21:15 | 1h | 135 | 135 |
| 8 | July 6, 2025 08:45 | July 6, 2025 10:30 | 1h 45m | 135 | 236 |
| 9 | May 16, 2025 22:15 | May 16, 2025 23:45 | 1h 30m | 134 | 201 |
| 10 | April 2, 2025 21:45 | April 3, 2025 01:30 | 3h 45m | 132 | 489 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 17 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of New Albany - (MS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Holly Springs | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 3,973 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. Benton County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, MS annual power outage report, 2025, 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2025/mississippi/benton-county