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2024 Hancock County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Hancock County, MS went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 102K customer-hours (Mississippi average 9.2 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 82 Mississippi counties and 1799th 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 Hancock 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 | April 10, 2024 13:00 | April 12, 2024 01:45 | 1d 12h | 4,850 | 35K |
| 2 | March 9, 2024 04:30 | March 9, 2024 05:30 | 1h | 4,634 | 2,896 |
| 3 | December 31, 2024 14:30 | December 31, 2024 16:45 | 2h 15m | 2,536 | 2,535 |
| 4 | November 8, 2024 13:15 | November 8, 2024 17:30 | 4h 15m | 2,203 | 1,658 |
| 5 | April 10, 2024 06:15 | April 10, 2024 07:00 | 45m | 2,189 | 1,641 |
| 6 | May 17, 2024 05:00 | May 17, 2024 20:30 | 15h 30m | 1,788 | 2,651 |
| 7 | January 6, 2024 01:30 | January 6, 2024 05:45 | 4h 15m | 1,756 | 3,124 |
| 8 | September 11, 2024 16:30 | September 12, 2024 20:30 | 1d 4h | 1,747 | 15K |
| 9 | August 15, 2024 21:45 | August 16, 2024 03:45 | 6h | 1,695 | 2,969 |
| 10 | April 24, 2024 12:15 | April 24, 2024 17:00 | 4h 45m | 1,589 | 417 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 57 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Hancock 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 |
| Coast Electric Power Assn - (MS) | 2024 | 4.6 hrs | 2.41 | 1.7 hrs | 1.41 |
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 ÷ 24,430 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. Hancock County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hancock 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/hancock-county