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2016 Forrest County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Forrest County, MS went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 33K customer-hours (Mississippi average 3.1 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 71 Mississippi counties and 1906th 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 Forrest 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 | May 29, 2016 10:15 | May 29, 2016 17:45 | 7h 30m | 1,121 | 7,616 |
| 2 | July 6, 2016 20:45 | July 6, 2016 23:30 | 2h 45m | 792 | 247 |
| 3 | July 5, 2016 02:45 | July 5, 2016 06:30 | 3h 45m | 699 | 1,924 |
| 4 | September 25, 2016 22:45 | September 26, 2016 04:00 | 5h 15m | 644 | 328 |
| 5 | July 4, 2016 22:15 | July 5, 2016 00:00 | 1h 45m | 599 | 157 |
| 6 | April 12, 2016 05:15 | April 12, 2016 10:15 | 5h | 593 | 496 |
| 7 | April 30, 2016 22:00 | May 1, 2016 08:15 | 10h 15m | 589 | 1,048 |
| 8 | March 11, 2016 05:30 | March 12, 2016 02:00 | 20h 30m | 538 | 1,089 |
| 9 | July 25, 2016 18:45 | July 25, 2016 22:30 | 3h 45m | 511 | 718 |
| 10 | June 17, 2016 23:45 | June 18, 2016 05:45 | 6h | 474 | 1,266 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 40 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Forrest 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 44,433 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. Forrest County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Forrest 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/forrest-county