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2025 Forrest County, MS Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Forrest County, MS went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 78K customer-hours (Mississippi average 7.5 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 81 Mississippi counties and 2522nd of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with MS, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Mississippi customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Forrest County, 2025
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 15, 2025 13:30 | June 15, 2025 14:15 | 45m | 2,771 | 2,077 |
| 2 | June 25, 2025 19:45 | June 26, 2025 01:00 | 5h 15m | 2,766 | 1,414 |
| 3 | June 30, 2025 15:45 | June 30, 2025 21:15 | 5h 30m | 2,765 | 1,389 |
| 4 | September 15, 2025 12:45 | September 15, 2025 13:45 | 1h | 2,096 | 534 |
| 5 | March 15, 2025 16:30 | March 17, 2025 03:00 | 1d 10h | 1,621 | 6,338 |
| 6 | April 5, 2025 12:15 | April 5, 2025 14:30 | 2h 15m | 1,480 | 784 |
| 7 | April 2, 2025 21:45 | April 2, 2025 23:30 | 1h 45m | 1,415 | 371 |
| 8 | August 30, 2025 16:00 | August 30, 2025 21:00 | 5h | 1,201 | 763 |
| 9 | April 6, 2025 10:30 | April 7, 2025 02:30 | 16h | 1,032 | 5,595 |
| 10 | June 10, 2025 20:45 | June 10, 2025 22:45 | 2h | 1,016 | 1,452 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 86 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 Forrest County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/mississippi/forrest-county