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2022 Smith County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Smith County, MS went without power for an average of 14.7 hours, a total of 106K customer-hours (Mississippi average 6.3 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 79 Mississippi counties and 461st 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 Smith 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 | April 13, 2022 23:30 | April 15, 2022 01:45 | 1d 2h | 2,226 | 19K |
| 2 | November 18, 2022 14:45 | November 18, 2022 15:30 | 45m | 1,614 | 405 |
| 3 | February 18, 2022 03:00 | February 19, 2022 01:15 | 22h 15m | 1,565 | 10K |
| 4 | March 30, 2022 18:45 | March 31, 2022 21:45 | 1d 3h | 1,186 | 6,873 |
| 5 | July 22, 2022 04:00 | July 22, 2022 21:15 | 17h 15m | 1,064 | 5,384 |
| 6 | November 9, 2022 16:30 | November 9, 2022 22:45 | 6h 15m | 1,046 | 639 |
| 7 | June 10, 2022 16:30 | June 12, 2022 02:45 | 1d 10h | 1,042 | 3,020 |
| 8 | October 27, 2022 18:00 | October 27, 2022 19:00 | 1h | 989 | 248 |
| 9 | October 27, 2022 20:15 | October 27, 2022 20:45 | 30m | 989 | 495 |
| 10 | October 27, 2022 22:15 | October 27, 2022 22:45 | 30m | 989 | 495 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 59 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Smith 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entergy Mississippi LLC | 2022 | 12.2 hrs | 2.38 | 5.5 hrs | 1.78 |
| Mississippi Power Co | 2022 | 1.7 hrs | 1.08 | 78 min | 0.97 |
| Southern Pine Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 7,211 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. Smith County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Smith 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/smith-county