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2016 Hinds County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Hinds County, MS went without power for an average of 7.1 hours, a total of 873K customer-hours (Mississippi average 3.1 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 71 Mississippi counties and 487th 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 Hinds 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 5, 2016 11:15 | May 6, 2016 02:45 | 15h 30m | 12,408 | 5,400 |
| 2 | December 18, 2016 07:00 | December 19, 2016 08:30 | 1d 1h | 10,114 | 44K |
| 3 | July 14, 2016 16:30 | July 18, 2016 11:15 | 3d 18h | 9,762 | 138K |
| 4 | November 28, 2016 10:15 | December 1, 2016 06:45 | 2d 20h | 5,203 | 93K |
| 5 | September 25, 2016 01:00 | September 27, 2016 01:30 | 2d | 5,139 | 17K |
| 6 | July 30, 2016 01:00 | August 2, 2016 11:30 | 3d 10h | 4,966 | 24K |
| 7 | April 28, 2016 14:15 | April 29, 2016 10:45 | 20h 30m | 4,602 | 16K |
| 8 | February 23, 2016 15:15 | February 23, 2016 19:30 | 4h 15m | 4,545 | 2,407 |
| 9 | February 23, 2016 20:15 | February 24, 2016 01:30 | 5h 15m | 4,530 | 1,203 |
| 10 | February 17, 2016 12:15 | February 18, 2016 19:15 | 1d 7h | 4,415 | 8,021 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 212 reached 100+ customers, 55 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Hinds 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 |
| Southwest Mississippi E P A | 2016 | 18.7 hrs | - | 13.6 hrs | - |
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 ÷ 122,216 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. Hinds County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hinds 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/hinds-county