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2016 Wayne County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Wayne County, MS went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Mississippi average 3.1 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 71 Mississippi counties and 1713th 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 Wayne 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 5, 2016 18:00 | July 5, 2016 22:15 | 4h 15m | 701 | 612 |
| 2 | February 2, 2016 16:30 | February 2, 2016 17:15 | 45m | 575 | 431 |
| 3 | April 12, 2016 00:45 | April 12, 2016 05:15 | 4h 30m | 515 | 1,692 |
| 4 | December 22, 2016 23:00 | December 23, 2016 03:45 | 4h 45m | 434 | 551 |
| 5 | December 29, 2016 15:30 | December 29, 2016 17:30 | 2h | 413 | 285 |
| 6 | February 2, 2016 22:15 | February 3, 2016 02:15 | 4h | 405 | 1,506 |
| 7 | February 24, 2016 14:30 | February 24, 2016 14:45 | 15m | 197 | 49 |
| 8 | September 2, 2016 00:00 | September 2, 2016 01:00 | 1h | 187 | 76 |
| 9 | August 16, 2016 12:30 | August 16, 2016 14:30 | 2h | 184 | 258 |
| 10 | January 26, 2016 20:00 | January 26, 2016 23:00 | 3h | 181 | 296 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 13 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Wayne 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 |
| East Mississippi Elec Pwr Assn | 2016 | 4.5 hrs | 2.89 | 3.9 hrs | 2.71 |
| Singing River Elec Cooperative | 2016 | 3.4 hrs | - | 2.4 hrs | - |
| 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 ÷ 10,874 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. Wayne County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wayne 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/wayne-county