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2016 Wilkinson County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Wilkinson County, MS went without power for an average of 13.1 hours, a total of 63K customer-hours (Mississippi average 3.1 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 71 Mississippi counties and 257th 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 Wilkinson 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 | April 7, 2016 14:30 | April 8, 2016 00:30 | 10h | 2,992 | 27K |
| 2 | August 15, 2016 01:45 | August 15, 2016 03:30 | 1h 45m | 2,972 | 3,597 |
| 3 | April 9, 2016 16:45 | April 9, 2016 18:00 | 1h 15m | 2,360 | 1,343 |
| 4 | February 3, 2016 03:45 | February 3, 2016 08:30 | 4h 45m | 2,303 | 828 |
| 5 | September 22, 2016 03:15 | September 22, 2016 06:45 | 3h 30m | 923 | 1,145 |
| 6 | September 21, 2016 12:00 | September 21, 2016 17:15 | 5h 15m | 922 | 2,127 |
| 7 | August 16, 2016 21:00 | August 17, 2016 05:00 | 8h | 921 | 1,778 |
| 8 | August 12, 2016 20:45 | August 14, 2016 00:15 | 1d 3h | 820 | 7,181 |
| 9 | August 3, 2016 21:30 | August 4, 2016 08:45 | 11h 15m | 593 | 4,655 |
| 10 | March 17, 2016 22:15 | March 19, 2016 00:15 | 1d 2h | 278 | 1,963 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 22 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 Wilkinson 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 |
| Southwest Mississippi E P A | 2016 | 18.7 hrs | - | 13.6 hrs | - |
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 ÷ 4,817 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. Wilkinson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wilkinson 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/wilkinson-county