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2016 Smith County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Smith County, MS went without power for an average of 6.7 hours, a total of 48K customer-hours (Mississippi average 3.1 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 71 Mississippi counties and 512th 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 Smith 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 23, 2016 05:30 | October 23, 2016 07:15 | 1h 45m | 1,833 | 980 |
| 2 | March 2, 2016 13:45 | March 2, 2016 16:00 | 2h 15m | 1,424 | 433 |
| 3 | April 11, 2016 23:15 | April 12, 2016 23:30 | 1d | 1,176 | 12K |
| 4 | November 28, 2016 18:00 | November 29, 2016 06:30 | 12h 30m | 1,039 | 4,207 |
| 5 | July 20, 2016 17:45 | July 20, 2016 22:30 | 4h 45m | 876 | 1,257 |
| 6 | February 15, 2016 14:30 | February 17, 2016 20:00 | 2d 5h | 758 | 5,693 |
| 7 | July 3, 2016 18:00 | July 3, 2016 18:15 | 15m | 674 | 169 |
| 8 | November 19, 2016 04:15 | November 19, 2016 10:30 | 6h 15m | 652 | 812 |
| 9 | February 28, 2016 19:30 | February 29, 2016 01:30 | 6h | 581 | 3,369 |
| 10 | November 30, 2016 18:00 | December 1, 2016 00:15 | 6h 15m | 577 | 1,319 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 41 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 Smith 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 |
| Mississippi Power Co | 2016 | 1.6 hrs | 1.21 | 76 min | 1.05 |
| 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 ÷ 7,211 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. Smith County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Smith 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/smith-county