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Who serves Newton County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Southern Pine Electric ↗, Mississippi Power ↗ and Central Electric Power Association, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Newton County, MS
Last significant outage: Sep 22, 2026 — peaked at 383 customers, restored in ~30 min (no severe weather).
Across the 7 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 48 min.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 22, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Newton County, MS
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
305 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
1 major event of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
2 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the Mississippi norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~10,028 customers out in May 2021, restored after about 2 days. The busiest year on record here was 2020.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered
Communities in Newton County include Union, Decatur, Lake, Hickory, Chunky and Conehatta. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Newton County, MS?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Newton include Southern Pine Electric, Mississippi Power and Central Electric Power Association — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
