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2018 Jones County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Jones County, MS went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 62K customer-hours (Mississippi average 3.0 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 76 Mississippi counties and 2157th 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 Jones 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 16:00 | May 13, 2018 16:30 | 30m | 6,879 | 1,722 |
| 2 | December 28, 2018 03:00 | December 31, 2018 00:15 | 2d 21h | 2,006 | 2,594 |
| 3 | May 31, 2018 01:15 | May 31, 2018 19:15 | 18h | 1,807 | 3,228 |
| 4 | July 31, 2018 18:00 | August 1, 2018 02:00 | 8h | 1,410 | 2,542 |
| 5 | November 6, 2018 18:15 | November 6, 2018 22:30 | 4h 15m | 1,183 | 645 |
| 6 | May 18, 2018 23:00 | May 21, 2018 17:45 | 2d 18h | 997 | 5,590 |
| 7 | March 27, 2018 14:30 | March 29, 2018 21:30 | 2d 7h | 894 | 1,220 |
| 8 | May 16, 2018 00:45 | May 17, 2018 16:45 | 1d 16h | 794 | 1,021 |
| 9 | May 23, 2018 22:45 | May 24, 2018 18:30 | 19h 45m | 758 | 2,019 |
| 10 | August 16, 2018 21:45 | August 17, 2018 00:00 | 2h 15m | 753 | 391 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 54 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Jones 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 |
| 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 ÷ 46,108 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. Jones County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jones 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/jones-county