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2016 Lamar County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lamar County, MS went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Mississippi average 3.1 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 71 Mississippi counties and 1829th 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 Lamar 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 | July 4, 2016 22:30 | July 5, 2016 05:30 | 7h | 1,553 | 7,512 |
| 2 | April 12, 2016 06:45 | April 12, 2016 16:00 | 9h 15m | 1,225 | 4,975 |
| 3 | June 29, 2016 16:00 | June 29, 2016 16:15 | 15m | 1,007 | 252 |
| 4 | May 19, 2016 22:45 | May 20, 2016 03:00 | 4h 15m | 986 | 3,945 |
| 5 | March 17, 2016 23:00 | March 18, 2016 01:30 | 2h 30m | 665 | 922 |
| 6 | June 13, 2016 14:45 | June 13, 2016 23:30 | 8h 45m | 663 | 455 |
| 7 | June 17, 2016 23:45 | June 18, 2016 04:45 | 5h | 559 | 2,010 |
| 8 | May 26, 2016 09:30 | May 26, 2016 12:30 | 3h | 463 | 1,266 |
| 9 | July 21, 2016 00:00 | July 21, 2016 01:45 | 1h 45m | 346 | 346 |
| 10 | June 7, 2016 00:15 | June 7, 2016 01:15 | 1h | 258 | 200 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 25 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Lamar 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 31,120 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. Lamar County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lamar 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/lamar-county