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2023 Forrest County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Forrest County, MS went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 79K customer-hours (Mississippi average 11.1 hours). That ranks 67th worst of 79 Mississippi counties and 2379th 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 Forrest 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 14, 2023 20:45 | June 15, 2023 23:30 | 1d 2h | 3,663 | 16K |
| 2 | June 16, 2023 11:45 | June 18, 2023 23:45 | 2d 12h | 3,354 | 11K |
| 3 | May 5, 2023 19:15 | May 8, 2023 04:45 | 2d 9h | 2,567 | 5,579 |
| 4 | July 30, 2023 23:15 | July 31, 2023 03:45 | 4h 30m | 2,566 | 3,602 |
| 5 | August 6, 2023 00:00 | August 6, 2023 07:15 | 7h 15m | 2,121 | 782 |
| 6 | October 11, 2023 19:45 | October 12, 2023 09:30 | 13h 45m | 1,198 | 1,662 |
| 7 | May 3, 2023 11:45 | May 4, 2023 01:00 | 13h 15m | 932 | 477 |
| 8 | July 12, 2023 23:15 | July 13, 2023 04:45 | 5h 30m | 858 | 922 |
| 9 | October 2, 2023 10:15 | October 3, 2023 22:45 | 1d 12h | 821 | 601 |
| 10 | September 29, 2023 19:00 | September 29, 2023 19:15 | 15m | 818 | 205 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 64 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 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, 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/forrest-county