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2020 Covington County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Covington County, MS went without power for an average of 25.9 hours, a total of 248K customer-hours (Mississippi average 18.5 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 79 Mississippi counties and 323rd of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with MS, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Mississippi customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Covington County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 12, 2020 16:00 | April 20, 2020 20:00 | 8d 4h | 6,431 | 137K |
| 2 | March 4, 2020 11:00 | March 5, 2020 03:45 | 16h 45m | 2,692 | 8,753 |
| 3 | April 22, 2020 23:30 | April 25, 2020 15:00 | 2d 15h | 2,632 | 35K |
| 4 | July 15, 2020 21:15 | July 15, 2020 23:15 | 2h | 2,032 | 613 |
| 5 | June 25, 2020 22:15 | June 26, 2020 11:00 | 12h 45m | 2,000 | 8,418 |
| 6 | January 11, 2020 15:15 | January 12, 2020 03:45 | 12h 30m | 1,259 | 4,385 |
| 7 | December 14, 2020 04:30 | December 14, 2020 06:00 | 1h 30m | 1,218 | 1,343 |
| 8 | December 24, 2020 07:00 | December 24, 2020 23:00 | 16h | 1,158 | 3,408 |
| 9 | May 21, 2020 21:15 | May 21, 2020 23:00 | 1h 45m | 1,133 | 1,127 |
| 10 | March 31, 2020 12:30 | March 31, 2020 19:45 | 7h 15m | 1,052 | 981 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 54 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 2020, 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 | 2020 | 16.7 hrs | 2.28 | 3.8 hrs | 1.38 |
| Mississippi Power Co | 2020 | 29.7 hrs | 1.95 | 87 min | 0.95 |
| Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn | 2020 | 15.8 hrs | 2.79 | 3.3 hrs | 1.98 |
| 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 77% of Mississippi's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/mississippi/covington-county