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2025 Newton County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Newton County, MS went without power for an average of 5.7 hours, a total of 72K customer-hours (Mississippi average 7.5 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 81 Mississippi counties and 1340th 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 Newton 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 | February 16, 2025 05:15 | February 17, 2025 22:30 | 1d 17h | 2,104 | 18K |
| 2 | May 24, 2025 22:30 | May 25, 2025 04:30 | 6h | 1,625 | 3,274 |
| 3 | September 13, 2025 04:00 | September 13, 2025 06:00 | 2h | 1,560 | 2,696 |
| 4 | May 26, 2025 02:00 | May 26, 2025 16:00 | 14h | 1,263 | 2,496 |
| 5 | March 15, 2025 18:15 | March 16, 2025 10:15 | 16h | 1,130 | 3,812 |
| 6 | April 27, 2025 23:45 | April 28, 2025 09:15 | 9h 30m | 907 | 2,786 |
| 7 | October 2, 2025 04:15 | October 2, 2025 06:45 | 2h 30m | 776 | 1,940 |
| 8 | March 4, 2025 15:00 | March 5, 2025 06:00 | 15h | 754 | 2,124 |
| 9 | April 6, 2025 07:45 | April 6, 2025 12:45 | 5h | 603 | 1,573 |
| 10 | May 7, 2025 05:45 | May 7, 2025 14:00 | 8h 15m | 562 | 2,151 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 59 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 Newton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2025; 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, 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/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2025/mississippi/newton-county