North East Mississippi EPA, MS
North East Mississippi EPA's outage record
North East Mississippi EPA customers in Mississippi rarely lose power at all: 5 interruptions last year, adding up to just 24 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 95% less outage time than the Mississippi state average of 8.4 hours a year.
How long a single North East Mississippi EPA outage runs
At an average of 5 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 29,909 customers here, With a record this steady, North East Mississippi EPA customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like North East Mississippi EPA files with federal regulators every year - serving 29,909 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Want the Mississippi average instead of just this one utility? Mississippi's statewide record is here. Storm days are counted in - here is why.