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2023 Covington County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Covington County, MS went without power for an average of 22.0 hours, a total of 210K customer-hours (Mississippi average 11.1 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 79 Mississippi counties and 363rd of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with MS, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Mississippi customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Covington County, 2023
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 16, 2023 11:00 | June 20, 2023 18:00 | 4d 7h | 5,442 | 144K |
| 2 | June 26, 2023 05:00 | June 28, 2023 15:15 | 2d 10h | 1,768 | 12K |
| 3 | June 14, 2023 22:00 | June 15, 2023 15:45 | 17h 45m | 1,763 | 6,887 |
| 4 | April 16, 2023 08:15 | April 16, 2023 09:45 | 1h 30m | 1,492 | 1,708 |
| 5 | May 5, 2023 19:45 | May 7, 2023 03:45 | 1d 8h | 1,351 | 12K |
| 6 | October 1, 2023 18:45 | October 1, 2023 19:15 | 30m | 1,116 | 286 |
| 7 | May 24, 2023 19:15 | May 24, 2023 20:30 | 1h 15m | 1,098 | 672 |
| 8 | May 15, 2023 18:45 | May 15, 2023 19:30 | 45m | 958 | 480 |
| 9 | November 29, 2023 14:15 | November 29, 2023 15:00 | 45m | 916 | 459 |
| 10 | March 23, 2023 14:15 | March 23, 2023 19:45 | 5h 30m | 903 | 231 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 48 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 Covington County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 20.0 hrs | 2.14 | 4.9 hrs | 1.52 |
| Mississippi Power Co | 2023 | 4.1 hrs | 1.07 | 82 min | 0.96 |
| Southern Pine Electric Cooperative | 2023 | 27.1 hrs | 5.21 | 5.3 hrs | 3.21 |
| Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn | 2023 | 3.2 hrs | 2.56 | 3.2 hrs | 2.56 |
| Dixie Electric Power Assn - (MS) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Collins - (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 n/a of Mississippi's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 9,565 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. Covington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Covington County, MS annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/mississippi/covington-county