– 0% of Pike out 0 customers out in Mississippi

Power outage history

Pike County Mississippi

18hours

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

20th most of 74 in Mississippi 2.7× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Ida · Sep 1, 2021 53% of customers out · 90% back in 3.5 days

Hours without power, average customer per year 18h / yr State average 9.8 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year 2.9 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers

Typical time to restore 90% 16hours Median across major outages, from the peak

Longest single outage 8.2days Hurricane Ida, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 64% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2021 2.1 days without power, average customer

Electricity customers 23,013 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 Pike'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 2.1 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Pike, hours without power per customer

PikeUS 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	12,148	53%	8.2 d	3.5 d	767k
Dec 8, 2017	Winter storm	11,596	50%	3.4 d	30 h	309k
Apr 23, 2020	Thunderstorms	8,360	36%	2.6 d	24 h	227k
Feb 15, 2021	No storm report	7,462	32%	3.4 d	2.7 d	217k
May 9, 2019	Thunderstorms	8,566	37%	2.5 d	2.1 d	194k
Jun 4, 2024	Thunderstorms	6,888	30%	2.9 d	2.0 d	184k
Oct 9, 2020	Hurricane Delta	11,114	48%	46 h	30 h	153k
Apr 10, 2021	Thunderstorms	4,833	21%	36 h	12 h	68k
Apr 10, 2024	No storm report	5,945	26%	36 h	28 h	65k
Mar 15, 2025	Tornadoes	2,966	13%	2.2 d	32 h	51k
Jun 12, 2023	Thunderstorms	6,816	30%	22 h	18 h	43k
Oct 25, 2015	Flooding	1,513	7%	43 h	23 h	40k
Apr 15, 2023	No storm report	3,323	14%	26 h	23 h	36k
May 6, 2025	No storm report	3,316	14%	20 h	16 h	34k
Apr 14, 2018	Thunderstorms	2,763	12%	34 h	29 h	30k
Mar 17, 2021	No storm report	2,716	12%	23 h	19 h	27k
Apr 13, 2019	No storm report	2,532	11%	29 h	20 h	27k
Jan 8, 2024	No storm report	1,558	7%	21 h	21 h	19k
Apr 1, 2015	No storm report	2,755	12%	8.2 h	6.8 h	19k
Oct 22, 2017	Tornadoes	3,318	14%	16 h	14 h	19k
Oct 26, 2019	Tropical Storm Olga	11,409	50%	15 h	48 min	19k
Dec 28, 2024	Tornadoes	1,262	5%	26 h	23 h	18k
Dec 30, 2024	No storm report	1,162	5%	31 h	29 h	17k
Feb 15, 2025	No storm report	1,827	8%	12 h	5.5 h	16k
Jun 25, 2020	No storm report	1,699	7%	19 h	19 h	15k
Jun 10, 2023	No storm report	2,319	10%	20 h	19 h	15k
Apr 7, 2018	Thunderstorms	1,740	8%	15 h	15 h	14k
Sep 2, 2025	No storm report	1,981	9%	6.5 h	6.5 h	13k
Apr 19, 2020	Thunderstorms	1,625	7%	19 h	18 h	13k
Aug 18, 2024	No storm report	2,243	10%	12 h	8.5 h	12k

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

No storm on record 36%
Tropical storm 34%
Thunderstorms 28%
Tornadoes 2.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Pike

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

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

Tangipahoa, LA 52 h
Amite 42 h
Washington, LA 23 h
Walthall 21 h
Pike (this county) 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 23,013 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 →