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2018 Wayne County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Wayne County, MS went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 27K customer-hours (Mississippi average 3.0 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 76 Mississippi counties and 1667th 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 Wayne 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 | November 1, 2018 11:45 | November 1, 2018 23:30 | 11h 45m | 1,365 | 1,792 |
| 2 | June 17, 2018 07:30 | June 17, 2018 13:00 | 5h 30m | 909 | 1,832 |
| 3 | July 12, 2018 22:45 | July 13, 2018 13:15 | 14h 30m | 794 | 1,036 |
| 4 | September 16, 2018 05:00 | September 17, 2018 13:15 | 1d 8h | 626 | 1,861 |
| 5 | May 30, 2018 13:15 | May 30, 2018 17:15 | 4h | 577 | 156 |
| 6 | July 31, 2018 19:00 | July 31, 2018 23:15 | 4h 15m | 502 | 164 |
| 7 | June 15, 2018 17:00 | June 15, 2018 19:30 | 2h 30m | 481 | 1,201 |
| 8 | May 13, 2018 01:00 | May 14, 2018 13:15 | 1d 12h | 433 | 913 |
| 9 | May 30, 2018 23:45 | May 31, 2018 18:30 | 18h 45m | 390 | 1,737 |
| 10 | July 2, 2018 18:45 | July 2, 2018 20:00 | 1h 15m | 339 | 342 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 32 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 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 |
| East Mississippi Elec Pwr Assn | 2018 | 3.3 hrs | 2.47 | 3.3 hrs | 2.47 |
| Singing River Elec Cooperative | 2018 | 4.8 hrs | - | 2.4 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 66% of Mississippi's customers in 2018; 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, 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/wayne-county