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2016 Hancock County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Hancock County, MS went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 7,326 customer-hours (Mississippi average 3.1 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 71 Mississippi counties and 2118th 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 Hancock 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 1, 2016 18:30 | May 1, 2016 23:00 | 4h 30m | 944 | 1,930 |
| 2 | July 22, 2016 07:00 | July 22, 2016 10:45 | 3h 45m | 743 | 1,124 |
| 3 | July 26, 2016 16:00 | July 26, 2016 18:00 | 2h | 580 | 147 |
| 4 | August 1, 2016 19:15 | August 1, 2016 20:30 | 1h 15m | 579 | 441 |
| 5 | April 15, 2016 22:45 | April 16, 2016 00:45 | 2h | 195 | 205 |
| 6 | April 1, 2016 22:30 | April 2, 2016 00:45 | 2h 15m | 186 | 226 |
| 7 | May 20, 2016 05:00 | May 20, 2016 14:30 | 9h 30m | 122 | 382 |
| 8 | September 22, 2016 17:30 | September 22, 2016 18:30 | 1h | 87 | 65 |
| 9 | July 14, 2016 19:00 | July 14, 2016 19:45 | 45m | 81 | 21 |
| 10 | August 23, 2016 20:00 | August 23, 2016 20:30 | 30m | 69 | 24 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 7 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Hancock 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 |
| Coast Electric Power Assn - (MS) | 2016 | 1.9 hrs | 1.47 | 40 min | - |
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 ÷ 24,430 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. Hancock County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hancock 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/hancock-county