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2020 Jones County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Jones County, MS went without power for an average of 7.0 hours, a total of 325K customer-hours (Mississippi average 18.5 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 79 Mississippi counties and 1079th 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 Jones 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 13:15 | October 27, 2020 16:30 | 3h 15m | 6,676 | 1,684 |
| 2 | April 12, 2020 13:45 | April 28, 2020 17:15 | 16d 3h | 5,213 | 197K |
| 3 | October 28, 2020 22:45 | October 30, 2020 00:15 | 1d 1h | 4,068 | 38K |
| 4 | January 11, 2020 13:15 | January 12, 2020 00:30 | 11h 15m | 1,913 | 3,860 |
| 5 | June 25, 2020 13:15 | June 27, 2020 00:45 | 1d 11h | 1,481 | 3,519 |
| 6 | August 14, 2020 19:00 | August 17, 2020 19:15 | 3d | 1,464 | 8,837 |
| 7 | May 22, 2020 14:30 | May 23, 2020 05:30 | 15h | 1,247 | 3,458 |
| 8 | June 5, 2020 23:15 | June 9, 2020 17:00 | 3d 17h | 1,114 | 14K |
| 9 | March 4, 2020 09:30 | March 5, 2020 16:45 | 1d 7h | 1,087 | 2,652 |
| 10 | February 6, 2020 05:15 | February 6, 2020 19:00 | 13h 45m | 752 | 1,832 |
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 Jones 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 |
| 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 ÷ 46,108 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. Jones County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jones 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/jones-county