Power Outages in Lamar County, MS
No live outage feed is available for Lamar County, MS yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 3.7 hours.
Lamar County, MS is served by local tracked utilities.
Lamar 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
Lamar 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 Lamar County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Lamar County went about 3.7 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 8,781 customers.
Worst year here was 2017 (peak 8,781 customers out) · decade average 2.7 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 337 | 1,008 | 0.2 |
| 2016 | 348 | 1,553 | 0.9 |
| 2017 | 631 | 8,781 | 4.7 |
| 2018 | 724 | 4,573 | 2.1 |
| 2019 | 780 | 4,969 | 2.5 |
| 2020 | 609 | 4,283 | 3.2 |
| 2021 | 749 | 3,507 | 3.0 |
| 2022 | 808 | 2,591 | 1.7 |
| 2023 | 784 | 5,471 | 2.5 |
| 2024 | 851 | 5,042 | 4.5 |
| 2025 | 775 | 4,105 | 3.7 |
Relatively Moderate hurricanes exposure · 2.7 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 Lamar County: FAQ
- How often does Lamar County, MS lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Lamar County, MS logged 775 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 3.7 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Lamar County, MS?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 8,781 customers without power, beginning December 8, 2017 and lasting about 2d 11h.
- Is there a power outage in Lamar County, MS right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Lamar County, MS. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Lamar County.
39402, 39455, 39475, 39482
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/28073 and /api/v1/counties/28073/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Mississippi customers).