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

Power outage history

Sharkey County Mississippi

20hours

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

17th most of 74 in Mississippi 3.0× the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 24, 2023 83% of customers out · 90% back in 5.8 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 20h / yr State average 9.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 5.6 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 7.0days Mar 24, 2023, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 61% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 2.8 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 2,219 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 Sharkey'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

2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.8 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Sharkey, hours without power per customer

SharkeyUS median countyMississippi average
0 20 40 60 80 3.3 ’15 8.7 ’16 14 ’17 6.5 ’18 10 ’19 12 ’20 20 ’21 25 ’22 67 ’23 7.4 ’24 9.8 ’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
Mar 24, 2023 Tornadoes 1,834 83% 7.0 d 5.8 d 119k
Dec 13, 2022 Tornadoes 1,953 88% 40 h 39 h 31k
Feb 17, 2021 Winter storm 826 37% 2.1 d 31 h 23k
Apr 3, 2017 No storm report 394 18% 40 h 9.8 h 15k
Jun 20, 2019 No storm report 470 21% 20 h 4.5 h 8.6k
Apr 12, 2020 Thunderstorms 525 24% 23 h 13 h 7.7k
Mar 15, 2025 Tornadoes 693 31% 34 h 30 h 6.4k
Apr 2, 2023 No storm report 770 35% 17 h 9.2 h 5.8k
May 15, 2022 No storm report 683 31% 20 h 8.8 h 5.2k
Jun 27, 2023 No storm report 248 11% 23 h 6.8 h 4.4k
Dec 29, 2016 No storm report 447 20% 12 h 3.5 h 4.2k
Jan 9, 2016 No storm report 392 18% 10 h 4.8 h 3.9k

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 +8h 90% by +16h

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

  • Tornadoes 48%
  • No storm on record 39%
  • Winter storm 6.9%
  • Thunderstorms 5.3%
  • Tropical storm 1.0%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Sharkey

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
Twin County Electric Pwr Assn MS 4,150 283 – 13.9 108k
Yazoo Valley Elec Power Assn Cooperative – – – 16.3 9.5k

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 2,219 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 →