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2022 Forrest County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Forrest County, MS went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 84K customer-hours (Mississippi average 6.3 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 79 Mississippi counties and 2337th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with MS, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Mississippi customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Forrest County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 10, 2022 18:00 | June 12, 2022 19:00 | 2d 1h | 3,147 | 12K |
| 2 | June 18, 2022 23:30 | June 21, 2022 06:45 | 2d 7h | 2,921 | 5,020 |
| 3 | March 30, 2022 14:45 | March 31, 2022 19:15 | 1d 4h | 1,775 | 11K |
| 4 | May 17, 2022 13:15 | May 17, 2022 17:15 | 4h | 1,623 | 726 |
| 5 | January 28, 2022 21:00 | January 29, 2022 16:15 | 19h 15m | 995 | 1,059 |
| 6 | January 10, 2022 16:45 | January 10, 2022 17:30 | 45m | 992 | 496 |
| 7 | December 20, 2022 20:00 | December 21, 2022 00:45 | 4h 45m | 966 | 1,343 |
| 8 | May 19, 2022 14:45 | May 19, 2022 16:30 | 1h 45m | 964 | 485 |
| 9 | April 18, 2022 01:15 | April 18, 2022 15:45 | 14h 30m | 962 | 720 |
| 10 | January 16, 2022 23:30 | January 17, 2022 04:45 | 5h 15m | 945 | 3,264 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 70 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 2022, 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 | 2022 | 1.7 hrs | 1.08 | 78 min | 0.97 |
| Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn | 2022 | 2.7 hrs | 2.09 | 2.7 hrs | 2.09 |
| 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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/mississippi/forrest-county