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2017 Hinds County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Hinds County, MS went without power for an average of 12.6 hours, a total of 1.5M customer-hours (Mississippi average 6.6 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 77 Mississippi counties and 428th 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 Hinds 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 | June 15, 2017 15:30 | June 21, 2017 08:00 | 5d 16h | 23,970 | 447K |
| 2 | January 23, 2017 01:15 | January 23, 2017 19:00 | 17h 45m | 9,515 | 61K |
| 3 | April 29, 2017 12:30 | May 6, 2017 21:00 | 7d 8h | 8,716 | 183K |
| 4 | May 28, 2017 12:15 | May 31, 2017 03:15 | 2d 15h | 6,941 | 99K |
| 5 | May 19, 2017 20:30 | May 25, 2017 06:45 | 5d 10h | 6,454 | 81K |
| 6 | January 6, 2017 23:30 | January 9, 2017 09:45 | 2d 10h | 6,258 | 38K |
| 7 | March 27, 2017 17:00 | March 30, 2017 02:45 | 2d 9h | 5,866 | 77K |
| 8 | April 2, 2017 19:00 | April 7, 2017 06:00 | 4d 11h | 3,934 | 60K |
| 9 | April 20, 2017 12:00 | April 20, 2017 23:45 | 11h 45m | 3,690 | 1,999 |
| 10 | February 18, 2017 04:30 | February 18, 2017 19:45 | 15h 15m | 3,684 | 7,995 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 183 reached 100+ customers, 42 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 Hinds 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 |
| Southwest Mississippi E P A | 2017 | 63.1 hrs | - | 36.1 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 ÷ 122,216 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. Hinds County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hinds 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/hinds-county