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2017 George County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in George County, MS went without power for an average of 12.6 hours, a total of 118K customer-hours (Mississippi average 6.6 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 77 Mississippi counties and 424th 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 George 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 | October 8, 2017 01:45 | October 9, 2017 21:45 | 1d 20h | 7,405 | 91K |
| 2 | April 11, 2017 04:45 | April 11, 2017 06:15 | 1h 30m | 805 | 328 |
| 3 | November 11, 2017 09:00 | November 11, 2017 10:15 | 1h 15m | 699 | 745 |
| 4 | April 3, 2017 11:15 | April 3, 2017 20:15 | 9h | 688 | 1,695 |
| 5 | August 31, 2017 18:45 | August 31, 2017 22:00 | 3h 15m | 680 | 530 |
| 6 | December 17, 2017 16:45 | December 17, 2017 19:15 | 2h 30m | 669 | 256 |
| 7 | May 12, 2017 17:00 | May 12, 2017 22:30 | 5h 30m | 644 | 679 |
| 8 | January 2, 2017 14:00 | January 3, 2017 04:30 | 14h 30m | 593 | 474 |
| 9 | May 30, 2017 13:30 | May 30, 2017 17:45 | 4h 15m | 544 | 154 |
| 10 | June 13, 2017 18:45 | June 13, 2017 20:15 | 1h 30m | 542 | 140 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 62 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 George 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 |
| Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn | 2017 | 11.3 hrs | 3.14 | 3.5 hrs | 2.30 |
| Singing River Elec Cooperative | 2017 | 10.5 hrs | - | 2.5 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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 9,353 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. George County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), George 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/george-county