Power Out Map
– 0% of Lauderdale out 0 customers out in Mississippi

Power outage history

Lauderdale County Mississippi

11hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

38th most of 74 in Mississippi 1.7× the national median

Worst outage on record May 4, 2021 100% of customers out · 90% back in 25 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 11h / yr State average 9.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.8 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 7hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.2days Feb 17, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 84% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 38 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 30,152 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Lauderdale's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 38 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Lauderdale, hours without power per customer

LauderdaleUS median countyMississippi average
0 10 20 30 40 50 0.8 ’15 1.1 ’16 1.5 ’17 2.9 ’18 3.0 ’19 8.7 ’20 38 ’21 5.9 ’22 15 ’23 7.5 ’24 8.3 ’25 MS 9.8 US 6.6

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
May 4, 2021 Tornadoes 30,152 100% 45 h 25 h 373k
Feb 17, 2021 Ice storm 18,997 63% 2.2 d 25 h 353k
Mar 26, 2023 Thunderstorms 17,918 59% 43 h 23 h 248k
Jun 13, 2021 Thunderstorms 15,594 52% 43 h 27 h 181k
Feb 15, 2021 Ice storm 8,808 29% 33 h 26 h 114k
Feb 15, 2025 Thunderstorms 10,916 36% 37 h 13 h 101k
Feb 6, 2020 Tornadoes 9,090 30% 39 h 5.0 h 81k
Jun 16, 2023 Thunderstorms 8,583 28% 29 h 11 h 73k
Apr 14, 2018 Thunderstorms 7,433 25% 26 h 21 h 68k
Apr 13, 2022 Tornadoes 3,300 11% 48 h 46 h 52k
May 10, 2024 Thunderstorms 5,163 17% 21 h 15 h 35k
Apr 23, 2020 Thunderstorms 7,549 25% 16 h 14 h 31k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +6h 90% by +20h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Lauderdale from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Thunderstorms 37%
  • Tornadoes 24%
  • Ice storm 20%
  • No storm on record 16%
  • Tropical storm 3.0%
  • Windstorm 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Lauderdale

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Mississippi territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Mississippi Power Co Investor Owned 105 76 1.03 15.7 158k
East Mississippi Elec Pwr Assn Cooperative 6 5 2.57 14.9 9.9k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Mississippi

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

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About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 30,152 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →