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2018 Covington County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Covington County, MS went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 35K customer-hours (Mississippi average 3.0 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 76 Mississippi counties and 1335th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with MS, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Mississippi customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Covington County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 2, 2018 20:15 | May 2, 2018 23:00 | 2h 45m | 2,540 | 2,083 |
| 2 | July 7, 2018 01:30 | July 7, 2018 05:45 | 4h 15m | 1,320 | 1,454 |
| 3 | December 14, 2018 16:15 | December 14, 2018 22:45 | 6h 30m | 1,141 | 1,600 |
| 4 | July 1, 2018 22:30 | July 2, 2018 02:00 | 3h 30m | 1,130 | 1,129 |
| 5 | August 28, 2018 17:00 | August 28, 2018 18:15 | 1h 15m | 913 | 463 |
| 6 | June 29, 2018 12:30 | June 29, 2018 16:15 | 3h 45m | 901 | 286 |
| 7 | April 14, 2018 14:15 | April 14, 2018 21:00 | 6h 45m | 830 | 797 |
| 8 | January 22, 2018 15:30 | January 22, 2018 19:30 | 4h | 804 | 1,223 |
| 9 | February 25, 2018 10:30 | February 25, 2018 18:45 | 8h 15m | 785 | 1,329 |
| 10 | September 11, 2018 15:15 | September 11, 2018 15:45 | 30m | 690 | 224 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 49 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Covington County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 5.3 hrs | 1.81 | 4.2 hrs | 1.64 |
| Mississippi Power Co | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.10 | 73 min | 0.94 |
| Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 1.99 | 2.2 hrs | 1.84 |
| Southern Pine Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dixie Electric Power Assn - (MS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Collins - (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 66% of Mississippi's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 9,565 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. Covington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Covington County, MS annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/mississippi/covington-county