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2017 Covington County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Covington County, MS went without power for an average of 23.5 hours, a total of 224K customer-hours (Mississippi average 6.6 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 77 Mississippi counties and 234th 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 Covington 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 05:15 | December 10, 2017 06:30 | 2d 1h | 13,579 | 116K |
| 2 | June 17, 2017 02:00 | June 19, 2017 03:30 | 2d 1h | 3,742 | 37K |
| 3 | January 2, 2017 20:30 | January 3, 2017 21:45 | 1d 1h | 2,095 | 18K |
| 4 | September 23, 2017 23:15 | September 24, 2017 14:15 | 15h | 1,570 | 14K |
| 5 | October 7, 2017 13:30 | October 7, 2017 14:15 | 45m | 1,274 | 637 |
| 6 | August 17, 2017 14:15 | August 17, 2017 16:00 | 1h 45m | 1,114 | 305 |
| 7 | December 20, 2017 08:45 | December 20, 2017 12:15 | 3h 30m | 1,031 | 908 |
| 8 | December 10, 2017 14:00 | December 11, 2017 00:45 | 10h 45m | 996 | 3,050 |
| 9 | June 22, 2017 13:45 | June 23, 2017 06:00 | 16h 15m | 995 | 1,347 |
| 10 | April 3, 2017 01:45 | April 3, 2017 05:45 | 4h | 922 | 1,190 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 41 reached 100+ customers, 7 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Covington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entergy Mississippi LLC | 2017 | 10.6 hrs | 2.34 | 3.2 hrs | 1.42 |
| Mississippi Power Co | 2017 | 4.0 hrs | 1.30 | 78 min | 0.93 |
| Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn | 2017 | 11.3 hrs | 3.14 | 3.5 hrs | 2.30 |
| Southern Pine Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dixie Electric Power Assn - (MS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Collins - (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 ÷ 9,565 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. Covington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Covington 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/covington-county