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2017 Wayne County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Wayne County, MS went without power for an average of 11.5 hours, a total of 125K customer-hours (Mississippi average 6.6 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 77 Mississippi counties and 474th 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 Wayne 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 2, 2017 20:45 | January 3, 2017 12:00 | 15h 15m | 1,764 | 4,145 |
| 2 | June 17, 2017 13:00 | June 19, 2017 14:45 | 2d 1h | 1,475 | 2,721 |
| 3 | August 6, 2017 13:30 | August 6, 2017 17:00 | 3h 30m | 1,417 | 3,944 |
| 4 | October 7, 2017 22:00 | October 8, 2017 17:00 | 19h | 990 | 3,296 |
| 5 | January 21, 2017 10:15 | January 22, 2017 19:15 | 1d 9h | 970 | 8,217 |
| 6 | December 8, 2017 15:00 | December 9, 2017 23:45 | 1d 8h | 759 | 2,920 |
| 7 | June 30, 2017 21:45 | July 1, 2017 05:45 | 8h | 644 | 1,236 |
| 8 | February 16, 2017 15:30 | February 16, 2017 20:00 | 4h 30m | 577 | 1,046 |
| 9 | January 27, 2017 15:30 | January 27, 2017 17:30 | 2h | 546 | 363 |
| 10 | August 14, 2017 23:45 | August 15, 2017 00:45 | 1h | 536 | 536 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 48 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Wayne 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 |
| East Mississippi Elec Pwr Assn | 2017 | 3.9 hrs | 2.76 | 3.5 hrs | 2.64 |
| 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 ÷ 10,874 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. Wayne County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wayne 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/wayne-county