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

Power outage history

Franklin County Mississippi

50hours

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

4th most of 74 in Mississippi 7.7× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Delta · Oct 10, 2020 100% of customers out · 90% back in 3.7 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 50h / yr State average 9.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 15.9 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 Feb 17, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 57% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 4.2 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 4,359 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 Franklin'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 4.2 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Franklin, hours without power per customer

FranklinUS median countyMississippi average
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 13 ’15 16 ’16 23 ’17 23 ’18 23 ’19 80 ’20 102 ’21 19 ’22 21 ’23 79 ’24 57 ’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
Oct 9, 2020 Hurricane Delta 4,359 100% 6.7 d 3.7 d 243k
Feb 17, 2021 Ice storm 2,496 57% 9.0 d 3.5 d 172k
Dec 28, 2024 Tornadoes 4,359 100% 4.9 d 3.7 d 171k
Aug 29, 2021 Hurricane Ida 3,440 79% 4.1 d 3.3 d 143k
Feb 15, 2025 Thunderstorms 2,159 50% 2.5 d 17 h 42k
Sep 3, 2021 No storm report 1,349 31% 2.7 d 2.3 d 35k
Apr 2, 2025 No storm report 4,359 100% 23 h 4.8 h 33k
Apr 9, 2021 No storm report 2,289 53% 43 h 25 h 32k
Dec 8, 2017 Winter storm 1,010 23% 2.5 d 32 h 27k
May 16, 2024 No storm report 1,773 41% 42 h 24 h 23k
Dec 27, 2018 Flooding 1,718 39% 15 h 2.2 h 23k
Jun 24, 2019 Thunderstorms 1,449 33% 2.3 d 37 h 23k

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 +10h 90% by +38h

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

  • No storm on record 43%
  • Tropical storm 25%
  • Tornadoes 12%
  • Ice storm 10%
  • Thunderstorms 7.9%
  • Flooding 2.3%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Franklin

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

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 4,359 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 →