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

Power outage history

Scott County Mississippi

14hours

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

32nd most of 74 in Mississippi 2.1× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 18, 2021 71% of customers out · 90% back in 2.2 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 14h / yr State average 9.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 6.0 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 4.0days Feb 17, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 77% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 32 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 17,935 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 Scott'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 32 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Scott, hours without power per customer

ScottUS median countyMississippi average
0 10 20 30 40 1.0 ’15 1.7 ’16 3.0 ’17 2.8 ’18 8.3 ’19 9.1 ’20 32 ’21 9.1 ’22 21 ’23 19 ’24 10 ’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 17, 2021 Ice storm 12,650 71% 4.0 d 2.2 d 334k
Jun 16, 2023 Thunderstorms 14,747 82% 3.5 d 36 h 260k
Apr 9, 2024 Thunderstorms 10,667 59% 2.9 d 35 h 122k
May 4, 2021 Thunderstorms 8,934 50% 45 h 22 h 80k
Mar 4, 2020 Thunderstorms 8,415 47% 36 h 14 h 64k
May 9, 2024 Thunderstorms 5,282 29% 40 h 20 h 61k
Oct 26, 2019 Tropical Storm Olga 4,928 27% 2.1 d 25 h 61k
Apr 13, 2022 Tornadoes 6,025 34% 28 h 20 h 50k
Feb 15, 2021 Winter storm 2,585 14% 2.1 d 26 h 40k
Feb 15, 2025 Thunderstorms 5,062 28% 36 h 8.0 h 38k
Dec 28, 2024 Tornadoes 3,998 22% 43 h 38 h 37k
Apr 18, 2019 Tornadoes 2,853 16% 28 h 27 h 34k

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

  • Thunderstorms 42%
  • No storm on record 23%
  • Ice storm 19%
  • Tornadoes 7.6%
  • Tropical storm 6.1%
  • Winter storm 2.3%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Scott

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
Mississippi Power Co Investor Owned 105 76 1.03 15.7 158k
Southern Pine Electric Cooperative Cooperative 649 447 5.46 14.5 66k
Central Electric Power Assn Cooperative 808 321 6.08 12.9 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 17,935 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 →