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2024 Forrest County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Forrest County, MS went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 75K customer-hours (Mississippi average 9.2 hours). That ranks 68th worst of 82 Mississippi counties and 2501st 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 Forrest 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 | January 9, 2024 03:00 | January 10, 2024 01:30 | 22h 30m | 2,265 | 5,453 |
| 2 | May 13, 2024 09:45 | May 14, 2024 00:15 | 14h 30m | 1,426 | 7,155 |
| 3 | December 27, 2024 11:45 | December 27, 2024 23:45 | 12h | 1,372 | 4,032 |
| 4 | March 25, 2024 14:30 | March 25, 2024 17:15 | 2h 45m | 1,235 | 748 |
| 5 | July 9, 2024 13:15 | July 9, 2024 22:15 | 9h | 1,209 | 1,166 |
| 6 | September 11, 2024 22:15 | September 12, 2024 21:00 | 22h 45m | 1,196 | 7,176 |
| 7 | April 11, 2024 13:15 | April 11, 2024 17:30 | 4h 15m | 979 | 382 |
| 8 | March 1, 2024 13:00 | March 1, 2024 17:00 | 4h | 975 | 1,086 |
| 9 | December 28, 2024 23:15 | December 29, 2024 22:00 | 22h 45m | 961 | 4,551 |
| 10 | April 2, 2024 10:00 | April 2, 2024 19:00 | 9h | 840 | 232 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 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, 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/forrest-county