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2023 Wayne County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Wayne County, MS went without power for an average of 5.4 hours, a total of 59K customer-hours (Mississippi average 11.1 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 79 Mississippi counties and 1391st 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 Wayne 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 11:45 | June 19, 2023 21:45 | 3d 10h | 3,397 | 35K |
| 2 | October 12, 2023 02:45 | October 12, 2023 09:00 | 6h 15m | 1,227 | 3,729 |
| 3 | July 30, 2023 22:15 | July 31, 2023 21:15 | 23h | 772 | 3,503 |
| 4 | September 5, 2023 14:00 | September 7, 2023 02:15 | 1d 12h | 722 | 482 |
| 5 | August 2, 2023 13:15 | August 2, 2023 16:00 | 2h 45m | 575 | 149 |
| 6 | May 27, 2023 22:00 | May 28, 2023 03:45 | 5h 45m | 484 | 2,615 |
| 7 | June 26, 2023 06:15 | June 26, 2023 21:15 | 15h | 403 | 1,974 |
| 8 | December 10, 2023 19:45 | December 10, 2023 22:15 | 2h 30m | 391 | 295 |
| 9 | June 5, 2023 21:00 | June 6, 2023 00:15 | 3h 15m | 369 | 390 |
| 10 | March 27, 2023 01:00 | March 27, 2023 11:30 | 10h 30m | 234 | 1,162 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 23 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Wayne 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 |
| East Mississippi Elec Pwr Assn | 2023 | 8.7 hrs | 4.33 | 7.3 hrs | 3.94 |
| Singing River Elec Cooperative | 2023 | 2.7 hrs | - | 2.5 hrs | - |
| 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 ÷ 10,874 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. Wayne County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wayne 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/wayne-county