Power Out Map
– 0% of Newton out 0 customers out in Mississippi

Power outage history

Newton County Mississippi

15hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

29th most of 74 in Mississippi 2.4× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 17, 2021 67% of customers out · 90% back in 3.8 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 15h / yr State average 9.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.8 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 4hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 8.4days Feb 15, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 87% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 3.1 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 12,693 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Newton's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.1 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Newton, hours without power per customer

NewtonUS median countyMississippi average
0 10 20 30 40 0.5 ’15 2.9 ’16 2.3 ’17 3.0 ’18 7.3 ’19 7.2 ’20 75 ’21 5.0 ’22 12 ’23 7.9 ’24 5.6 ’25 MS 9.8 US 6.6

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Feb 15, 2021 Ice storm 8,506 67% 8.4 d 3.8 d 688k
May 4, 2021 Thunderstorms 10,028 79% 2.1 d 41 h 215k
Jun 16, 2023 Thunderstorms 3,834 30% 39 h 32 h 62k
Oct 26, 2019 Tropical Storm Olga 3,305 26% 40 h 30 h 59k
Mar 4, 2020 Thunderstorms 3,149 25% 30 h 11 h 27k
May 9, 2024 Thunderstorms 4,048 32% 18 h 5.8 h 25k
Mar 26, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,990 24% 40 h 10 h 24k
Jun 18, 2023 Flooding 1,448 11% 21 h 12 h 20k
Feb 15, 2025 Tornadoes 2,104 17% 19 h 17 h 18k
Apr 12, 2020 No storm report 1,771 14% 20 h 2.8 h 15k
Apr 9, 2024 Thunderstorms 1,204 9% 19 h 16 h 11k
Jul 31, 2018 Thunderstorms 1,366 11% 14 h 11 h 11k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +8h 90% by +18h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Newton from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Ice storm 48%
  • Thunderstorms 29%
  • No storm on record 13%
  • Tropical storm 5.3%
  • Tornadoes 3.2%
  • Flooding 1.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Newton

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Mississippi territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Mississippi Power Co Investor Owned 105 76 1.03 15.7 158k
Southern Pine Electric Cooperative Cooperative 649 447 5.46 14.5 66k
Central Electric Power Assn Cooperative 808 321 6.08 12.9 31k
East Mississippi Elec Pwr Assn Cooperative 6 5 2.57 14.9 9.9k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Mississippi

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

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About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 12,693 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →