Power Outages in Forrest County, MS
No live outage feed is available for Forrest County, MS yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 1.8 hours.
Forrest County, MS is served by local tracked utilities.
Forrest 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
Forrest County has been under 4 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Heat Advisory on July 18, 2026.
- Flash Flood Warning ×2
- Heat Advisory ×2
Hardest-hit cities in Forrest County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
- Hattiesburgno active outage
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Forrest County went about 1.8 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 13,390 customers.
Worst year here was 2017 (peak 12,691 customers out) · decade average 2.6 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 815 | 1,326 | 0.6 |
| 2016 | 757 | 1,121 | 0.7 |
| 2017 | 869 | 12,691 | 12.3 |
| 2018 | 878 | 13,390 | 1.1 |
| 2019 | 863 | 2,946 | 1.6 |
| 2020 | 828 | 7,127 | 3.8 |
| 2021 | 881 | 1,901 | 1.9 |
| 2022 | 869 | 3,147 | 1.9 |
| 2023 | 850 | 3,663 | 1.8 |
| 2024 | 910 | 2,265 | 1.7 |
| 2025 | 958 | 2,771 | 1.8 |
Relatively High high winds exposure · 2.6 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability relatively moderate — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Forrest County: FAQ
- How often does Forrest County, MS lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Forrest County, MS logged 958 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 1.8 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Forrest County, MS?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 13,390 customers without power, beginning May 13, 2018 and lasting about 1h.
- Is there a power outage in Forrest County, MS right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Forrest County, MS. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Hattiesburg. Outage counts for these communities are reported at the Forrest County level shown above.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Forrest County.
39401, 39406, 39465
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/28035 and /api/v1/counties/28035/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Mississippi customers).