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2017 Jones County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Jones County, MS went without power for an average of 10.1 hours, a total of 464K customer-hours (Mississippi average 6.6 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 77 Mississippi counties and 536th 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 Jones 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 11:15 | December 10, 2017 05:30 | 1d 18h | 3,771 | 48K |
| 2 | June 16, 2017 12:15 | June 19, 2017 15:15 | 3d 3h | 2,794 | 15K |
| 3 | January 2, 2017 20:30 | January 3, 2017 10:30 | 14h | 2,198 | 9,944 |
| 4 | January 6, 2017 20:45 | January 9, 2017 14:00 | 2d 17h | 2,108 | 37K |
| 5 | January 21, 2017 08:45 | January 22, 2017 22:15 | 1d 13h | 1,999 | 5,884 |
| 6 | July 20, 2017 17:15 | July 21, 2017 01:30 | 8h 15m | 1,974 | 1,870 |
| 7 | April 30, 2017 16:00 | May 1, 2017 02:00 | 10h | 1,485 | 2,126 |
| 8 | May 21, 2017 22:45 | May 22, 2017 08:00 | 9h 15m | 1,315 | 7,422 |
| 9 | January 5, 2017 04:00 | January 5, 2017 17:30 | 13h 30m | 1,277 | 4,132 |
| 10 | October 7, 2017 13:15 | October 7, 2017 17:15 | 4h | 1,275 | 1,696 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 81 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Jones 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 |
| 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 ÷ 46,108 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. Jones County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jones 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/jones-county