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

Power outage history

Smith County Mississippi

23hours

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

13th most of 74 in Mississippi 3.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 15, 2021 74% of customers out · 90% back in 4.2 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 23h / yr State average 9.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 10.6 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 6.5days Feb 15, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 78% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 2.1 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 7,211 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 Smith'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.

Smith, hours without power per customer

SmithUS median countyMississippi average
0 20 40 60 2.1 ’15 6.6 ’16 13 ’17 4.8 ’18 35 ’19 13 ’20 51 ’21 14 ’22 22 ’23 26 ’24 18 ’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 5,329 74% 6.5 d 4.2 d 284k
Oct 26, 2019 Tropical Storm Olga 6,211 86% 2.5 d 2.1 d 164k
Jun 16, 2023 Thunderstorms 4,934 68% 4.1 d 2.2 d 108k
Dec 28, 2024 Tornadoes 5,164 72% 2.2 d 38 h 68k
Dec 8, 2017 Winter storm 5,976 83% 35 h 2.5 h 52k
May 13, 2024 Thunderstorms 3,374 47% 20 h 11 h 36k
Dec 16, 2019 Tornadoes 3,557 49% 2.1 d 20 h 29k
Mar 15, 2025 Tornadoes 2,037 28% 33 h 25 h 25k
Apr 18, 2019 Thunderstorms 1,036 14% 43 h 30 h 20k
May 9, 2024 Thunderstorms 4,177 58% 20 h 3.0 h 19k
Apr 13, 2022 Thunderstorms 2,226 31% 21 h 14 h 19k
Sep 12, 2024 Hurricane Francine 3,694 51% 16 h 8.2 h 19k

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

  • Thunderstorms 24%
  • Winter storm 23%
  • No storm on record 22%
  • Tropical storm 17%
  • Tornadoes 12%
  • Flooding 1.2%
  • Windstorm 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Smith

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

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 7,211 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 →