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2019 Covington County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Covington County, MS went without power for an average of 20.3 hours, a total of 194K customer-hours (Mississippi average 5.8 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 78 Mississippi counties and 214th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with MS, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Mississippi customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Covington County, 2019
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 26, 2019 08:30 | October 29, 2019 05:30 | 2d 21h | 6,552 | 138K |
| 2 | April 13, 2019 19:30 | April 15, 2019 01:30 | 1d 6h | 2,494 | 26K |
| 3 | September 13, 2019 06:30 | September 13, 2019 07:45 | 1h 15m | 1,436 | 1,580 |
| 4 | April 4, 2019 14:00 | April 4, 2019 22:30 | 8h 30m | 921 | 915 |
| 5 | June 27, 2019 22:45 | June 28, 2019 01:15 | 2h 30m | 884 | 469 |
| 6 | March 31, 2019 13:30 | March 31, 2019 14:45 | 1h 15m | 874 | 478 |
| 7 | September 19, 2019 21:15 | September 20, 2019 00:30 | 3h 15m | 775 | 337 |
| 8 | July 15, 2019 04:15 | July 15, 2019 17:30 | 13h 15m | 723 | 770 |
| 9 | January 11, 2019 14:30 | January 11, 2019 20:45 | 6h 15m | 687 | 480 |
| 10 | March 14, 2019 23:15 | March 15, 2019 00:30 | 1h 15m | 687 | 687 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 44 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 2019, 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 74% of Mississippi's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/mississippi/covington-county