Power Out Map
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Power outage history

Leake County Mississippi

7.6hours

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

48th most of 74 in Mississippi 1.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 18, 2021 35% of customers out · 90% back in 2.0 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 7.6h / yr State average 9.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 5.4 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 4hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 3.1days Feb 17, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 67% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 19 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 13,509 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 Leake's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 19 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Leake, hours without power per customer

LeakeUS median countyMississippi average
0 5 10 15 20 25 0.6 ’15 1.0 ’16 1.2 ’17 2.6 ’18 3.7 ’19 4.8 ’20 19 ’21 6.6 ’22 8.7 ’23 7.9 ’24 7.2 ’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
Feb 17, 2021 Winter storm 4,703 35% 3.1 d 2.0 d 121k
May 4, 2021 Thunderstorms 6,252 46% 31 h 26 h 64k
Jun 14, 2023 Thunderstorms 3,690 27% 2.8 d 29 h 45k
Apr 9, 2024 Thunderstorms 1,982 15% 45 h 41 h 27k
Jun 18, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,858 21% 21 h 6.2 h 26k
Mar 30, 2022 Tornadoes 2,887 21% 25 h 4.0 h 19k
Dec 28, 2024 Tornadoes 2,257 17% 25 h 22 h 19k
Feb 15, 2025 Thunderstorms 3,069 23% 36 h 1.5 h 18k
Apr 12, 2020 Thunderstorms 4,361 32% 25 h 3.5 h 17k
Feb 27, 2019 No storm report 2,596 19% 7.5 h 6.5 h 16k
Nov 23, 2018 No storm report 2,534 19% 5.8 h 5.5 h 14k
Apr 13, 2022 Thunderstorms 2,332 17% 19 h 3.0 h 9.5k

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 +4h 90% by +18h

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 Leake from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Thunderstorms 39%
  • No storm on record 34%
  • Winter storm 17%
  • Tornadoes 6.5%
  • Tropical storm 2.6%
  • Windstorm 0.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Leake

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
Entergy Mississippi LLC Investor Owned 640 410 2.61 13.9 384k
Mississippi Power Co Investor Owned 105 76 1.03 15.7 158k
Central Electric Power Assn Cooperative 808 321 6.08 12.9 31k

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 13,509 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 →