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Power Outages in Mississippi County, AR

Entergy Arkansas LLC publishes only a system-wide total, not county figures. There is no live feed for City of Osceola - (AR) and Mississippi County Electric Co. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 8.1 hours.

Mississippi County, AR is served by 3 tracked utilities.

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Entergy Arkansas LLC publishes no county-level figures.

No live feed for City of Osceola - (AR) and Mississippi County Electric Co: outages in theirservice area won't show here.

Live status by utility · Mississippi County

0.0%of this county's ~23,045 customers are served by utilities with a county-level live feed.

Blind spots

We can't see outages for: City of Osceola - (AR), Mississippi County Electric Co. Their customers are not in any number on this page; check their own outage maps.

System-wide total only, no county split: Entergy Arkansas LLC.

UtilityFeedOutServed% outSmall outagesIncidentsUtility ETRAs of
Entergy Arkansas LLCLive · total onlynot by county------
City of Osceola - (AR)No live feedcan't see------
Mississippi County Electric CoNo live feedcan't see------

Electricity-dependent residents

HHS emPOWER · data October 7, 2026

Medicare beneficiaries in Mississippi Countywho rely on electricity-dependent medical equipment (ventilators, oxygen concentrators, home dialysis, powered wheelchairs, and more). HHS reports counts of 1–10 as “≤11”. Medicare only, so the full at-risk population is larger.

Power-dependent
764
Oxygen service
292
Dialysis (facility)
150
Home health / hospice
187
By ZIP code (11)
ZIPPower-dependentVentilatorsO2 concentratorsHome dialysis
7231531023264≤11
72370126≤11101≤11
7244299≤11860
7243853≤1144≤11
7235826≤1121≤11
7235020≤11140
7235116≤1113≤11
72395130≤110
72428≤110≤110
72426≤110≤110
72330≤110≤11≤11

Emergency managers can request identified beneficiary lists through their state health department via the HHS emPOWER program.

🔔 Alerts for Mississippi County, AR

Outage began, grew, restoration estimate changed, restored: by email, Slack, Teams, Discord or signed webhook, for Mississippi County or any town and utility in it.

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◢ ACTIVE WEATHER ALERTS · NWS

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Recent NWS alert activity · Mississippi County

Mississippi County has been under 13 National Weather Service alerts recently, most recently a Wind Advisory on October 10, 2026.

  • Heat Advisory ×11
  • Wind Advisory ×2

Latest Mississippi County, AR outage updates

A running log of how this outage has changed, updated automatically as utilities report in.

  1. RESOLVED

    Power restored after 4h 20m

  2. IMPROVING

    Improving: down to 215 customers out

  3. OUTAGE BEGAN

    Outage began: 483 customers out (2.7% of the county)

Outage trend · Mississippi County, AR
0customers out · peak 6
Data as of Oct 15, 2026 00:30 UTC
Mississippi County, AR: customers without power, last 24 hoursPeak 6 customers out; latest 0 as of Oct 15, 2026 00:30 UTC. Each point is the highest reading in its interval.0246Oct 146 AM12 PM6 PM
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Times in EDT. Shaded stretches had no reading.

Hardest-hit cities in Mississippi County

Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.

No cities on file for this county

Historical reliability

In 2025, the average customer in Mississippi County went about 8.1 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 7,688 customers.

Official state benchmark (EIA 2025)Source: US EIA

The US EIA reports Arkansas utilities averaged 7.9 hrs without power per customer (SAIDI) in 2025, a cross-check on our county estimate of 8.1 hrs.

A decade of outages (2015–2025)
avg hrs without power / customer
Mississippi County average outage hours per customer by year2015–2025: 2015 7.7h, 2016 6.6h, 2017 20.2h, 2018 10.1h, 2019 3.7h, 2020 7.2h, 2021 11.2h, 2022 13.0h, 2023 10.3h, 2024 5.8h, 2025 8.1h. Highlighted: 2017.01020307.7h20156.6h201620.2h201710.1h20183.7h20197.2h202011.2h202113.0h202210.3h20235.8h20248.1h2025
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Worst year here was 2017 (peak 7,688 customers out) · decade average 9.4 hrs without power per customer/yr.

YearOutage eventsPeak customers outAvg hrs/customer
20155365,5607.7
20165725,4286.6
20175167,68820.2
20186093,63610.1
20195242,2343.7
20205672,8567.2
20216483,84311.2
20226294,18213.0
20236252,67510.3
20246292,2825.8
20256812,9798.1

Cost of power in Mississippi County

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Estimated residential electricity price for Mississippi County, customer-weighted across the utilities serving it (US EIA, 2025). Retail prices aren't published at the county level; this is a derived estimate.

12.6¢/kWh
estimated residential average
▲ 31% since 2015
vs Arkansas avg 14.3¢
vs US avg 20.0¢
BY UTILITY · RESIDENTIAL ¢/kWh

Weighted by each utility's residential customer count (utilities report customers at the state level; a per-county share isn't published). Rising retail prices track a national demand surge; see energy & the data-center boom.

Worst recorded outages
STARTEDPEAK OUTDURATION
April 30, 20177,6883d 22h
March 1, 20176,8062d 11h
July 14, 20155,5601d 21h
January 22, 20165,4281d 22h
March 30, 20224,1821d 10h
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Natural hazards & outage risk
HIGH

Very High ice storms exposure · 9.4 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.

Ice stormVery High
TornadoRelatively Moderate
Heat waveRelatively Moderate
EarthquakeRelatively Moderate

FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability very high: outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.

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Power outages in Mississippi County: FAQ

How often does Mississippi County, AR lose power?
Based on EAGLE-I records, Mississippi County, AR logged 681 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 8.1 hours without power per customer over the year.
What was the worst power outage in Mississippi County, AR?
The largest tracked outage peaked at 7,688 customers without power, beginning April 30, 2017 and lasting about 3d 22h.
Is there a power outage in Mississippi County, AR right now?
No major outage is currently reported for Mississippi County, AR. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Which utilities serve Mississippi County, AR?
Tracked electric providers include Entergy Arkansas LLC.
Nearby counties
Craighead CountyCrittenden CountyDunklin CountyDyer County
ZIP codes in Mississippi County

Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Mississippi County.

72313, 72315, 72329, 72330, 72350, 72351, 72358, 72370, 72391, 72395, 72426, 72428, 72438, 72442

Electric providers serving this county

From EIA-861 service territory, with official reliability where reported.

ProviderOfficial SAIDI (EIA)LiveReport outage
Entergy Arkansas LLC8.6 hrsLive · total only-
Mississippi County Electric Co-No live feed-
City of Osceola - (AR)-No live feed-

Data from DOE/ORNL ODIN, DOE EAGLE-I, EIA Form 861 (utility reliability), EIA electricity retail prices and FEMA National Risk Index, every source we read. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Arkansas customers). Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/05093 and /api/v1/counties/05093/history.