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

Power outage history

Lawrence County Mississippi

20hours

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

18th most of 74 in Mississippi 3.0× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 15, 2021 63% of customers out · 90% back in 30 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 20h / yr State average 9.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 13.4 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 20.8days Aug 14, 2025, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 54% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 34 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 6,452 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 Lawrence'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 34 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Lawrence, hours without power per customer

LawrenceUS median countyMississippi average
0 10 20 30 40 1.6 ’15 8.1 ’16 23 ’17 4.0 ’18 15 ’19 15 ’20 34 ’21 8.8 ’22 23 ’23 26 ’24 32 ’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 15, 2021 Winter storm 4,076 63% 5.0 d 30 h 99k
Dec 8, 2017 Winter storm 5,128 79% 2.5 d 29 h 77k
Jun 16, 2023 Thunderstorms 3,323 52% 2.5 d 2.1 d 70k
Aug 14, 2025 No storm report 408 6% 20.8 d 4.8 d 52k
Aug 29, 2021 Hurricane Ida 2,461 38% 44 h 24 h 41k
May 13, 2024 Tornadoes 2,605 40% 2.3 d 13 h 36k
Dec 28, 2024 No storm report 1,652 26% 2.7 d 43 h 33k
Jun 16, 2017 Thunderstorms 1,766 27% 42 h 33 h 26k
Feb 15, 2025 No storm report 2,951 46% 15 h 6.0 h 23k
Apr 22, 2020 Thunderstorms 2,604 40% 2.7 d 3.0 h 22k
Jun 4, 2024 No storm report 3,040 47% 27 h 17 h 20k
Oct 27, 2025 No storm report 2,498 39% 8.8 h 17 h 20k

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 +32h

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

  • No storm on record 46%
  • Thunderstorms 26%
  • Winter storm 11%
  • Tropical storm 9.5%
  • Tornadoes 6.0%
  • Windstorm 0.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Lawrence

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
Southern Pine Electric Cooperative Cooperative 649 447 5.46 14.5 66k
Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn Cooperative 295 261 3.79 15.6 53k
Magnolia Electric Power Assn Cooperative 1,258 – – 16.1 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 6,452 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 →