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2016 Jackson County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Jackson County, MS went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 43K customer-hours (Mississippi average 3.1 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 71 Mississippi counties and 1902nd 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 Jackson 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 | December 14, 2016 17:00 | December 14, 2016 19:30 | 2h 30m | 2,469 | 620 |
| 2 | May 21, 2016 12:15 | May 21, 2016 23:45 | 11h 30m | 2,170 | 934 |
| 3 | September 21, 2016 13:00 | September 21, 2016 18:30 | 5h 30m | 1,670 | 647 |
| 4 | May 20, 2016 05:30 | May 20, 2016 17:00 | 11h 30m | 1,618 | 3,193 |
| 5 | December 26, 2016 19:45 | December 28, 2016 00:00 | 1d 4h | 1,452 | 893 |
| 6 | November 29, 2016 05:15 | November 29, 2016 12:00 | 6h 45m | 1,377 | 2,336 |
| 7 | December 4, 2016 20:15 | December 5, 2016 02:45 | 6h 30m | 1,141 | 3,256 |
| 8 | March 24, 2016 18:00 | March 24, 2016 19:45 | 1h 45m | 1,046 | 409 |
| 9 | March 21, 2016 12:45 | March 21, 2016 17:15 | 4h 30m | 1,003 | 981 |
| 10 | September 16, 2016 09:30 | September 16, 2016 13:00 | 3h 30m | 912 | 841 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 56 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Jackson 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 |
| Singing River Elec Cooperative | 2016 | 3.4 hrs | - | 2.4 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 ÷ 57,806 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. Jackson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jackson 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/jackson-county