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2016 Covington County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Covington County, MS went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 49K customer-hours (Mississippi average 3.1 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 71 Mississippi counties and 654th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with MS, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Mississippi customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Covington County, 2016
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 6, 2016 22:30 | August 7, 2016 02:00 | 3h 30m | 1,624 | 3,093 |
| 2 | February 15, 2016 20:15 | February 16, 2016 03:30 | 7h 15m | 1,336 | 3,547 |
| 3 | March 10, 2016 22:45 | March 11, 2016 09:45 | 11h | 1,317 | 4,839 |
| 4 | July 22, 2016 18:45 | July 23, 2016 00:45 | 6h | 1,013 | 1,359 |
| 5 | January 26, 2016 09:45 | January 26, 2016 13:00 | 3h 15m | 895 | 2,580 |
| 6 | May 11, 2016 15:30 | May 11, 2016 16:15 | 45m | 893 | 363 |
| 7 | May 18, 2016 14:00 | May 18, 2016 16:30 | 2h 30m | 890 | 2,225 |
| 8 | July 25, 2016 22:00 | July 26, 2016 07:30 | 9h 30m | 887 | 2,104 |
| 9 | November 1, 2016 20:00 | November 1, 2016 20:15 | 15m | 799 | 200 |
| 10 | December 23, 2016 19:30 | December 23, 2016 20:45 | 1h 15m | 791 | 797 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 47 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Covington County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entergy Mississippi LLC | 2016 | 6.2 hrs | 2.06 | 3.5 hrs | 1.64 |
| Mississippi Power Co | 2016 | 1.6 hrs | 1.21 | 76 min | 1.05 |
| Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn | 2016 | 2.6 hrs | 2.15 | 2.6 hrs | 2.15 |
| Southern Pine Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dixie Electric Power Assn - (MS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Collins - (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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 9,565 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. Covington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Covington County, MS annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/mississippi/covington-county