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2020 George County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in George County, MS went without power for an average of 167.1 hours, a total of 1.6M customer-hours (Mississippi average 18.5 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 79 Mississippi counties and 25th 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 George 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 28, 2020 23:30 | November 12, 2020 01:00 | 14d 1h | 14,673 | 1.5M |
| 2 | April 23, 2020 11:15 | April 24, 2020 05:15 | 18h | 5,057 | 19K |
| 3 | September 16, 2020 05:15 | September 17, 2020 01:00 | 19h 45m | 2,203 | 11K |
| 4 | January 11, 2020 15:00 | January 12, 2020 02:00 | 11h | 2,110 | 3,209 |
| 5 | March 31, 2020 14:30 | April 1, 2020 00:15 | 9h 45m | 1,232 | 4,650 |
| 6 | April 13, 2020 01:15 | April 13, 2020 07:00 | 5h 45m | 1,109 | 2,501 |
| 7 | June 7, 2020 18:15 | June 8, 2020 07:15 | 13h | 1,010 | 2,506 |
| 8 | January 14, 2020 00:30 | January 14, 2020 01:45 | 1h 15m | 938 | 655 |
| 9 | June 24, 2020 18:00 | June 24, 2020 23:30 | 5h 30m | 906 | 645 |
| 10 | October 10, 2020 04:45 | October 10, 2020 14:30 | 9h 45m | 736 | 1,112 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 52 reached 100+ customers, 7 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 George 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 |
| Singing River Elec Cooperative | 2020 | 70.0 hrs | - | 2.8 hrs | - |
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 ÷ 9,353 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. George County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), George 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/george-county