Power outage history
Wayne County Mississippi
5.7hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
58th most of 74 in Mississippi 14% below the national median
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 Wayne's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 14 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Wayne, hours without power per customer
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 2020 | Hurricane Zeta | 2,520 | 23% | 6.0 d | 3.4 d | 84k |
| Nov 20, 2017 | No storm report | 402 | 4% | 9.1 d | – | 44k |
| Jun 16, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 3,397 | 31% | 38 h | 3.8 h | 35k |
| Oct 26, 2017 | No storm report | 177 | 2% | 5.1 d | – | 15k |
| Feb 12, 2025 | Tornadoes | 1,804 | 17% | 41 h | 20 h | 15k |
| Apr 23, 2020 | Tornadoes | 1,319 | 12% | 37 h | 27 h | 14k |
| Feb 15, 2025 | No storm report | 3,668 | 34% | 20 h | 4.2 h | 13k |
| Mar 30, 2022 | Tornadoes | 1,439 | 13% | 22 h | 21 h | 11k |
| Sep 12, 2024 | Hurricane Francine | 1,705 | 16% | 10 h | 4.8 h | 8.4k |
| Jan 21, 2017 | No storm report | 970 | 9% | 16 h | 13 h | 7.3k |
| Jan 11, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 2,007 | 18% | 8.0 h | 2.5 h | 6.8k |
| Jun 13, 2021 | No storm report | 901 | 8% | 11 h | 8.5 h | 6.2k |
| Dec 28, 2024 | Tornadoes | 653 | 6% | 15 h | 15 h | 6.0k |
| Jun 27, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 1,054 | 10% | 11 h | 7.5 h | 4.9k |
| Dec 27, 2024 | Tornadoes | 1,614 | 15% | 2.8 h | 48 min | 4.2k |
| Apr 12, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,435 | 13% | 12 h | 4.2 h | 4.2k |
| Jun 29, 2020 | No storm report | 548 | 5% | 8.0 h | 6.0 h | 4.1k |
| Jan 2, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 1,764 | 16% | 12 h | 48 min | 4.1k |
| Jul 12, 2020 | No storm report | 745 | 7% | 16 h | 11 h | 4.0k |
| Aug 6, 2017 | No storm report | 1,417 | 13% | 3.2 h | 2.0 h | 3.9k |
| May 21, 2017 | No storm report | 470 | 4% | 10 h | – | 3.9k |
| Oct 11, 2023 | No storm report | 1,227 | 11% | 5.2 h | 8.0 h | 3.7k |
| Mar 17, 2021 | Tornadoes | 901 | 8% | 5.5 h | 3.2 h | 3.7k |
| Apr 13, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 385 | 4% | 14 h | – | 3.7k |
| May 19, 2025 | No storm report | 1,516 | 14% | 2.5 h | 2.2 h | 3.5k |
| Jun 25, 2020 | No storm report | 1,517 | 14% | 4.8 h | 3.2 h | 3.4k |
| Mar 4, 2025 | Tornadoes | 1,013 | 9% | 11 h | 3.5 h | 3.4k |
| Jul 30, 2023 | No storm report | 772 | 7% | 8.5 h | 7.8 h | 3.0k |
| May 4, 2017 | No storm report | 533 | 5% | 10 h | – | 3.0k |
| Oct 7, 2017 | Hurricane Nate | 990 | 9% | 8.5 h | 48 min | 2.8k |
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 Wayne from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 38%
- Tropical storm 27%
- Thunderstorms 19%
- Tornadoes 17%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Wayne
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi Power Co | Investor Owned | 105 | 76 | 1.03 | 15.7 | 158k |
| Singing River Elec Cooperative | Cooperative | 156 | 156 | – | 13.5 | 73k |
| Dixie Electric Power Assn | Cooperative | 349 | 211 | 2.73 | 13.9 | 38k |
| East Mississippi Elec Pwr Assn | Cooperative | 6 | 5 | 2.57 | 14.9 | 9.9k |
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
- Greene 24 h
- Jasper 13 h
- Perry 12 h
- Clarke 10.0 h
- Wayne (this county) 5.7 h
- Choctaw, AL 5.5 h
- Jones 3.4 h
- Washington, AL 2.1 h
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 10,874 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 →