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2016 Lawrence County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lawrence County, MS went without power for an average of 8.1 hours, a total of 52K customer-hours (Mississippi average 3.1 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 71 Mississippi counties and 435th 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 Lawrence 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 18, 2016 15:15 | July 18, 2016 17:45 | 2h 30m | 2,732 | 3,706 |
| 2 | August 6, 2016 00:00 | August 6, 2016 07:30 | 7h 30m | 2,292 | 4,173 |
| 3 | March 17, 2016 21:00 | March 18, 2016 07:15 | 10h 15m | 1,625 | 4,227 |
| 4 | July 24, 2016 00:00 | July 24, 2016 02:00 | 2h | 1,480 | 2,358 |
| 5 | February 17, 2016 00:30 | February 17, 2016 22:30 | 22h | 1,171 | 2,004 |
| 6 | May 3, 2016 22:00 | May 4, 2016 01:45 | 3h 45m | 975 | 1,693 |
| 7 | August 13, 2016 23:15 | August 14, 2016 02:30 | 3h 15m | 966 | 1,437 |
| 8 | December 4, 2016 10:45 | December 4, 2016 13:30 | 2h 45m | 960 | 1,207 |
| 9 | February 15, 2016 12:45 | February 16, 2016 23:15 | 1d 10h | 693 | 8,276 |
| 10 | February 22, 2016 23:15 | February 23, 2016 02:15 | 3h | 684 | 1,391 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 41 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Lawrence 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 |
| Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn | 2016 | 2.6 hrs | 2.15 | 2.6 hrs | 2.15 |
| Magnolia Electric Power Assn | 2016 | 5.1 hrs | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 6,452 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. Lawrence County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lawrence 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/lawrence-county