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2024 Covington County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Covington County, MS went without power for an average of 16.8 hours, a total of 161K customer-hours (Mississippi average 9.2 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 82 Mississippi counties and 602nd of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with MS, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Mississippi customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Covington County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 25, 2024 15:00 | March 25, 2024 15:45 | 45m | 4,986 | 1,247 |
| 2 | September 12, 2024 00:15 | September 13, 2024 12:45 | 1d 12h | 3,659 | 25K |
| 3 | May 13, 2024 08:45 | May 14, 2024 17:00 | 1d 8h | 2,867 | 26K |
| 4 | June 18, 2024 10:45 | June 18, 2024 12:30 | 1h 45m | 2,598 | 3,504 |
| 5 | July 2, 2024 23:30 | July 3, 2024 08:45 | 9h 15m | 2,064 | 9,458 |
| 6 | December 29, 2024 01:45 | January 1, 2025 00:00 | 2d 22h | 1,446 | 38K |
| 7 | June 5, 2024 19:45 | June 6, 2024 16:45 | 21h | 1,420 | 7,231 |
| 8 | August 16, 2024 21:00 | August 17, 2024 04:15 | 7h 15m | 1,417 | 2,256 |
| 9 | December 27, 2024 12:15 | December 27, 2024 19:00 | 6h 45m | 1,145 | 2,392 |
| 10 | November 20, 2024 15:00 | November 20, 2024 20:15 | 5h 15m | 1,113 | 1,552 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 51 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 2024, 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 | 2024 | 11.5 hrs | 2.31 | 5.5 hrs | 1.75 |
| Mississippi Power Co | 2024 | 2.1 hrs | 1.12 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| Southern Pine Electric Cooperative | 2024 | 16.7 hrs | 6.29 | 5.4 hrs | 4.48 |
| Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn | 2024 | 6.2 hrs | 3.32 | 4.0 hrs | 2.91 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/mississippi/covington-county