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2020 Hinds County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Hinds County, MS went without power for an average of 9.7 hours, a total of 1.2M customer-hours (Mississippi average 18.5 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 79 Mississippi counties and 810th 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 Hinds 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 8, 2020 13:00 | October 15, 2020 07:30 | 6d 18h | 12,936 | 192K |
| 2 | April 22, 2020 12:15 | April 26, 2020 04:00 | 3d 15h | 5,394 | 53K |
| 3 | April 1, 2020 02:00 | April 1, 2020 05:15 | 3h 15m | 5,031 | 3,878 |
| 4 | August 16, 2020 21:30 | August 18, 2020 04:45 | 1d 7h | 4,947 | 66K |
| 5 | November 19, 2020 12:15 | November 21, 2020 11:00 | 1d 22h | 4,450 | 73K |
| 6 | June 5, 2020 10:30 | June 11, 2020 08:00 | 5d 21h | 4,449 | 118K |
| 7 | November 18, 2020 14:30 | November 19, 2020 02:00 | 11h 30m | 4,054 | 17K |
| 8 | March 3, 2020 08:45 | March 7, 2020 10:15 | 4d 1h | 3,857 | 42K |
| 9 | March 23, 2020 13:15 | March 24, 2020 05:15 | 16h | 3,536 | 6,856 |
| 10 | July 4, 2020 08:45 | July 7, 2020 01:45 | 2d 17h | 3,199 | 35K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 158 reached 100+ customers, 30 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 Hinds 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 |
| Southwest Mississippi E P A | 2020 | 80.2 hrs | - | 22.6 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 ÷ 122,216 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. Hinds County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hinds 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/hinds-county