Power Outages in Covington County, MS
No live outage feed is available for Covington County, MS yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 14.8 hours.
Covington County, MS is served by local tracked utilities.
Covington County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
- Heat AdvisoryMODERATE
Covington County has been under 2 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Heat Advisory on July 18, 2026.
- Heat Advisory ×2
Hardest-hit cities in Covington County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Covington County went about 14.8 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 13,579 customers.
Worst year here was 2020 (peak 6,431 customers out) · decade average 14.6 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 181 | 1,321 | 2.5 |
| 2016 | 396 | 1,624 | 5.1 |
| 2017 | 475 | 13,579 | 23.5 |
| 2018 | 525 | 2,540 | 3.6 |
| 2019 | 512 | 6,552 | 20.3 |
| 2020 | 502 | 6,431 | 25.9 |
| 2021 | 516 | 3,276 | 19.2 |
| 2022 | 542 | 2,380 | 6.6 |
| 2023 | 521 | 5,442 | 22.0 |
| 2024 | 617 | 4,986 | 16.8 |
| 2025 | 686 | 3,442 | 14.8 |
Relatively Moderate hurricanes exposure · 14.6 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability very high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Covington County: FAQ
- How often does Covington County, MS lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Covington County, MS logged 686 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 14.8 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Covington County, MS?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 13,579 customers without power, beginning December 8, 2017 and lasting about 2d 1h.
- Is there a power outage in Covington County, MS right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Covington County, MS. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Covington County.
39119, 39428, 39479
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/28031 and /api/v1/counties/28031/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Mississippi customers).