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2019 Forrest County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Forrest County, MS went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 70K customer-hours (Mississippi average 5.8 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 78 Mississippi counties and 2244th 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 Forrest 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 09:15 | October 29, 2019 13:00 | 3d 3h | 2,946 | 13K |
| 2 | January 9, 2019 13:15 | January 9, 2019 22:45 | 9h 30m | 2,488 | 3,887 |
| 3 | December 19, 2019 08:45 | December 19, 2019 22:15 | 13h 30m | 1,683 | 3,714 |
| 4 | January 1, 2019 00:00 | January 8, 2019 19:45 | 7d 19h | 1,520 | 2,061 |
| 5 | September 9, 2019 20:00 | September 10, 2019 07:30 | 11h 30m | 1,369 | 1,042 |
| 6 | July 8, 2019 04:00 | July 8, 2019 23:00 | 19h | 1,037 | 810 |
| 7 | May 11, 2019 20:15 | May 12, 2019 17:15 | 21h | 1,027 | 1,197 |
| 8 | May 26, 2019 01:45 | May 26, 2019 05:45 | 4h | 1,014 | 1,249 |
| 9 | April 4, 2019 19:30 | April 4, 2019 21:15 | 1h 45m | 1,006 | 841 |
| 10 | June 25, 2019 23:30 | June 26, 2019 04:15 | 4h 45m | 1,004 | 757 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 65 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Forrest 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 74% of Mississippi's customers in 2019; 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, 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/forrest-county