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2017 Perry County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Perry County, MS went without power for an average of 32.5 hours, a total of 156K customer-hours (Mississippi average 6.6 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 77 Mississippi counties and 155th 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 Perry 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 | January 21, 2017 08:45 | January 22, 2017 21:00 | 1d 12h | 1,328 | 7,280 |
| 2 | October 8, 2017 06:15 | October 9, 2017 03:00 | 20h 45m | 963 | 3,470 |
| 3 | January 2, 2017 20:45 | January 3, 2017 03:00 | 6h 15m | 927 | 1,588 |
| 4 | August 1, 2017 23:45 | August 2, 2017 01:00 | 1h 15m | 856 | 780 |
| 5 | July 15, 2017 09:15 | July 15, 2017 11:15 | 2h | 823 | 940 |
| 6 | March 26, 2017 12:15 | March 27, 2017 18:15 | 1d 6h | 807 | 1,535 |
| 7 | July 10, 2017 00:15 | July 10, 2017 04:30 | 4h 15m | 735 | 671 |
| 8 | November 21, 2017 00:00 | November 30, 2017 03:30 | 9d 3h | 722 | 108K |
| 9 | May 4, 2017 09:00 | May 4, 2017 14:45 | 5h 45m | 464 | 991 |
| 10 | April 30, 2017 17:30 | May 1, 2017 01:45 | 8h 15m | 461 | 780 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 40 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 Perry 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 | - |
| 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 ÷ 4,806 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. Perry County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Perry 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/perry-county