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2017 Clarke County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Clarke County, MS went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 23K customer-hours (Mississippi average 6.6 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 77 Mississippi counties and 1269th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with MS, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Mississippi customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Clarke County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 8, 2017 08:45 | December 21, 2017 18:15 | 13d 9h | 1,136 | 14K |
| 2 | January 2, 2017 21:30 | January 3, 2017 04:30 | 7h | 693 | 1,506 |
| 3 | May 9, 2017 12:45 | May 9, 2017 18:45 | 6h | 580 | 574 |
| 4 | December 22, 2017 17:00 | December 22, 2017 17:15 | 15m | 444 | 111 |
| 5 | January 21, 2017 09:00 | January 21, 2017 16:15 | 7h 15m | 429 | 1,100 |
| 6 | August 8, 2017 00:00 | August 8, 2017 07:00 | 7h | 426 | 668 |
| 7 | March 25, 2017 06:30 | March 25, 2017 08:45 | 2h 15m | 284 | 144 |
| 8 | November 26, 2017 15:30 | November 26, 2017 16:15 | 45m | 263 | 197 |
| 9 | August 14, 2017 17:45 | August 14, 2017 20:45 | 3h | 234 | 65 |
| 10 | June 16, 2017 13:30 | June 16, 2017 15:00 | 1h 30m | 177 | 197 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 17 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Clarke County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 4.0 hrs | 1.30 | 78 min | 0.93 |
| East Mississippi Elec Pwr Assn | 2017 | 3.9 hrs | 2.76 | 3.5 hrs | 2.64 |
| Southern Pine Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,062 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. Clarke County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clarke County, MS annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/mississippi/clarke-county