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2020 Forrest County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Forrest County, MS went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 170K customer-hours (Mississippi average 18.5 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 79 Mississippi counties and 1649th 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 Forrest 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 | October 27, 2020 13:30 | October 27, 2020 13:45 | 15m | 7,127 | 1,782 |
| 2 | April 20, 2020 01:00 | April 23, 2020 18:00 | 3d 17h | 5,654 | 36K |
| 3 | October 28, 2020 23:00 | November 1, 2020 23:45 | 4d | 5,408 | 77K |
| 4 | April 13, 2020 00:15 | April 15, 2020 01:15 | 2d 1h | 2,209 | 11K |
| 5 | June 12, 2020 22:15 | June 12, 2020 23:30 | 1h 15m | 1,675 | 1,236 |
| 6 | June 5, 2020 23:00 | June 7, 2020 21:45 | 1d 22h | 1,591 | 1,905 |
| 7 | May 15, 2020 23:00 | May 18, 2020 15:00 | 2d 16h | 1,441 | 2,207 |
| 8 | January 11, 2020 16:30 | January 12, 2020 01:15 | 8h 45m | 1,400 | 2,853 |
| 9 | August 29, 2020 12:00 | August 29, 2020 13:30 | 1h 30m | 1,381 | 1,379 |
| 10 | June 25, 2020 22:45 | June 26, 2020 07:00 | 8h 15m | 975 | 1,094 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 49 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 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, 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/forrest-county