– 0% of Amite out 0 customers out in Mississippi

Power outage history

Amite County Mississippi

42hours

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

5th most of 74 in Mississippi 6.4× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Ida · Sep 1, 2021 100% of customers out · 90% back in 4.5 days

Hours without power, average customer per year 42h / yr State average 9.8 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year 13.9 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 9.0days Hurricane Ida, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 60% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2021 3.3 days without power, average customer

Electricity customers 6,825 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 Amite'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 3.3 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Amite, hours without power per customer

AmiteUS median countyMississippi average

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
Aug 29, 2021	Hurricane Ida	6,825	100%	9.0 d	4.5 d	408k
Oct 9, 2020	Hurricane Delta	6,825	100%	4.0 d	2.5 d	308k
Dec 28, 2024	Tornadoes	3,773	55%	5.1 d	3.8 d	184k
Dec 8, 2017	Winter storm	4,325	63%	3.5 d	33 h	114k
Jun 4, 2024	Tornadoes	5,405	79%	2.8 d	2.0 d	114k
May 9, 2019	Thunderstorms	4,468	65%	3.0 d	35 h	87k
Apr 10, 2024	No storm report	3,019	44%	3.3 d	43 h	55k
Apr 23, 2020	Tornadoes	2,977	44%	2.3 d	19 h	44k
May 6, 2025	No storm report	2,205	32%	47 h	30 h	41k
Feb 15, 2025	No storm report	2,082	31%	46 h	19 h	30k
Jan 8, 2024	No storm report	1,369	20%	30 h	11 h	25k
Dec 16, 2019	Tornadoes	1,965	29%	2.4 d	31 h	24k
Nov 1, 2018	No storm report	1,233	18%	28 h	24 h	18k
Jun 24, 2019	No storm report	1,678	25%	41 h	14 h	17k
Apr 19, 2020	Thunderstorms	1,588	23%	26 h	20 h	16k
Dec 26, 2018	No storm report	1,770	26%	2.1 d	2.5 h	16k
Mar 15, 2024	No storm report	3,219	47%	19 h	6.5 h	15k
Apr 10, 2021	Thunderstorms	1,063	16%	41 h	22 h	15k
May 25, 2022	No storm report	1,534	22%	29 h	23 h	14k
Dec 29, 2025	No storm report	1,524	22%	17 h	15 h	14k
Jun 25, 2020	No storm report	2,797	41%	21 h	9.8 h	14k
Jun 12, 2023	No storm report	1,466	21%	24 h	23 h	12k
Oct 25, 2015	No storm report	764	11%	16 h	6.0 h	10k
Jun 23, 2020	No storm report	590	9%	27 h	13 h	10k
May 17, 2021	No storm report	933	14%	18 h	5.2 h	9.8k
Feb 22, 2021	No storm report	1,321	19%	7.5 h	7.8 h	9.6k
Apr 18, 2019	Thunderstorms	1,814	27%	9.2 h	6.8 h	9.5k
Apr 14, 2018	Thunderstorms	2,167	32%	15 h	11 h	9.5k
Mar 4, 2025	Thunderstorms	1,196	18%	26 h	18 h	9.4k
Jun 27, 2023	No storm report	887	13%	23 h	10 h	9.3k

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.

When it happens

The outage clock

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

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

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

No storm on record 40%
Tropical storm 35%
Tornadoes 17%
Thunderstorms 7.4%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Amite

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
Magnolia Electric Power Assn	Cooperative	1,258	–	–	16.1	31k
Southwest Mississippi E P A	Cooperative	2,736	1,832	–	15.3	23k

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

Wilkinson 90 h
St. Helena, LA 83 h
Tangipahoa, LA 52 h
Franklin 50 h
East Feliciana, LA 45 h
Amite (this county) 42 h
Pike 18 h
Lincoln 16 h

Across Mississippi

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Mississippi counties →

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 6,825 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 →