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2016 Jones County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Jones County, MS went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 31K customer-hours (Mississippi average 3.1 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 71 Mississippi counties and 1929th 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 Jones 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 | June 11, 2016 19:15 | June 12, 2016 00:15 | 5h | 1,418 | 871 |
| 2 | August 4, 2016 19:45 | August 5, 2016 02:45 | 7h | 963 | 1,319 |
| 3 | December 30, 2016 17:00 | December 30, 2016 21:30 | 4h 30m | 907 | 748 |
| 4 | December 29, 2016 11:45 | December 29, 2016 15:45 | 4h | 795 | 1,026 |
| 5 | November 29, 2016 06:00 | November 29, 2016 09:30 | 3h 30m | 669 | 2,205 |
| 6 | November 19, 2016 16:45 | November 19, 2016 18:00 | 1h 15m | 556 | 279 |
| 7 | December 13, 2016 14:00 | December 13, 2016 23:00 | 9h | 556 | 508 |
| 8 | February 15, 2016 20:45 | February 16, 2016 03:00 | 6h 15m | 551 | 927 |
| 9 | July 14, 2016 21:45 | July 15, 2016 02:15 | 4h 30m | 488 | 346 |
| 10 | November 22, 2016 16:45 | November 22, 2016 21:45 | 5h | 446 | 231 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 34 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 Jones 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 |
| 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 ÷ 46,108 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. Jones County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jones 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/jones-county