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

Power outage history

Quitman County Mississippi

30hours

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

6th most of 74 in Mississippi 4.6× the national median

Worst outage on record Jan 11, 2020 100% of customers out · 90% back in 21 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 30h / yr State average 9.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 12.8 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 4.6days Apr 12, 2020, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 42% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 4.1 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 1,880 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 Quitman'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

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 4.1 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Quitman, hours without power per customer

QuitmanUS median countyMississippi average
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 13 ’15 15 ’16 10.0 ’17 9.2 ’18 8.9 ’19 99 ’20 17 ’21 28 ’22 29 ’23 24 ’24 25 ’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
Jan 11, 2020 Thunderstorms 1,880 100% 4.3 d 21 h 88k
Apr 12, 2020 No storm report 1,448 77% 4.6 d 3.1 d 69k
Feb 1, 2023 Ice storm 1,069 57% 2.7 d 2.1 d 16k
Jun 26, 2022 Heat 794 42% 25 h 15 h 9.8k
Mar 15, 2024 Thunderstorms 465 25% 36 h 33 h 8.0k
Jan 31, 2023 Ice storm 540 29% 15 h 3.8 h 7.7k
Mar 30, 2022 Thunderstorms 331 18% 30 h 29 h 7.2k
Oct 6, 2016 No storm report 864 46% 8.0 h 5.5 h 6.7k
Mar 9, 2016 No storm report 989 53% 12 h 2.0 h 6.7k
May 25, 2025 Thunderstorms 1,032 55% 46 h 15 h 6.6k
Jun 7, 2025 No storm report 872 46% 27 h 24 h 6.5k
Feb 1, 2024 No storm report 860 46% 7.2 h 8.8 h 6.1k

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 +8h 90% by +26h

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

  • No storm on record 58%
  • Thunderstorms 28%
  • Ice storm 6.0%
  • Heat 5.9%
  • Tropical storm 1.0%
  • Winter storm 0.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Quitman

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
Coahoma Electric Power Assn MS – – – 10.9 92k

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 1,880 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 →