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2018 Hinds County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Hinds County, MS went without power for an average of 5.9 hours, a total of 719K customer-hours (Mississippi average 3.0 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 76 Mississippi counties and 926th 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 Hinds 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 | October 31, 2018 17:00 | November 2, 2018 22:30 | 2d 5h | 6,610 | 50K |
| 2 | March 28, 2018 14:30 | March 30, 2018 05:30 | 1d 15h | 5,322 | 20K |
| 3 | July 16, 2018 15:00 | July 18, 2018 23:00 | 2d 8h | 4,575 | 23K |
| 4 | April 13, 2018 12:45 | April 16, 2018 01:45 | 2d 13h | 4,183 | 44K |
| 5 | October 16, 2018 13:00 | October 16, 2018 23:45 | 10h 45m | 3,409 | 2,491 |
| 6 | May 20, 2018 19:15 | May 22, 2018 07:30 | 1d 12h | 3,177 | 11K |
| 7 | October 8, 2018 13:45 | October 9, 2018 04:45 | 15h | 3,158 | 3,480 |
| 8 | October 29, 2018 13:00 | October 30, 2018 00:15 | 11h 15m | 3,106 | 7,780 |
| 9 | August 17, 2018 11:45 | August 18, 2018 11:00 | 23h 15m | 2,624 | 16K |
| 10 | June 11, 2018 13:15 | June 13, 2018 09:30 | 1d 20h | 2,605 | 29K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 174 reached 100+ customers, 44 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 Hinds 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 |
| Southwest Mississippi E P A | 2018 | 25.2 hrs | - | 22.9 hrs | - |
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 ÷ 122,216 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. Hinds County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hinds 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/hinds-county