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2018 Forrest County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Forrest County, MS went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 47K customer-hours (Mississippi average 3.0 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 76 Mississippi counties and 2291st 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 Forrest 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 13, 2018 15:45 | May 13, 2018 16:45 | 1h | 13,390 | 3,463 |
| 2 | March 30, 2018 10:00 | March 30, 2018 12:15 | 2h 15m | 4,645 | 1,797 |
| 3 | July 2, 2018 11:15 | July 2, 2018 16:00 | 4h 45m | 2,463 | 1,877 |
| 4 | March 10, 2018 22:15 | March 12, 2018 19:45 | 1d 21h | 1,122 | 1,289 |
| 5 | March 31, 2018 00:15 | March 31, 2018 00:30 | 15m | 1,079 | 270 |
| 6 | December 27, 2018 22:00 | December 31, 2018 00:15 | 3d 2h | 786 | 1,319 |
| 7 | June 21, 2018 19:00 | June 21, 2018 21:00 | 2h | 779 | 271 |
| 8 | November 27, 2018 19:15 | November 27, 2018 20:00 | 45m | 772 | 579 |
| 9 | August 18, 2018 20:30 | August 19, 2018 08:30 | 12h | 638 | 1,270 |
| 10 | July 7, 2018 01:00 | July 9, 2018 12:45 | 2d 11h | 628 | 889 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 65 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Forrest 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 44,433 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. Forrest County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Forrest 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/forrest-county