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2016 Pearl River County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Pearl River County, MS went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 34K customer-hours (Mississippi average 3.1 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 71 Mississippi counties and 1683rd 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 Pearl River 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 | October 16, 2016 04:15 | October 16, 2016 08:00 | 3h 45m | 2,243 | 8,120 |
| 2 | November 13, 2016 05:15 | November 13, 2016 09:15 | 4h | 2,240 | 8,960 |
| 3 | October 30, 2016 04:15 | October 30, 2016 08:00 | 3h 45m | 2,237 | 8,120 |
| 4 | May 20, 2016 04:15 | May 20, 2016 16:30 | 12h 15m | 1,821 | 2,104 |
| 5 | March 6, 2016 07:15 | March 6, 2016 12:45 | 5h 30m | 256 | 931 |
| 6 | June 28, 2016 20:15 | June 28, 2016 23:15 | 3h | 220 | 225 |
| 7 | April 24, 2016 12:45 | April 24, 2016 14:15 | 1h 30m | 201 | 169 |
| 8 | March 30, 2016 07:45 | March 30, 2016 08:45 | 1h | 177 | 177 |
| 9 | July 13, 2016 21:30 | July 13, 2016 23:30 | 2h | 141 | 145 |
| 10 | March 17, 2016 23:45 | March 18, 2016 04:15 | 4h 30m | 126 | 149 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 16 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Pearl River 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 |
| Coast Electric Power Assn - (MS) | 2016 | 1.9 hrs | 1.47 | 40 min | - |
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 ÷ 28,954 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. Pearl River County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pearl River 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/pearl-river-county