Power Outages in Sharkey County, MS
No live outage feed is available for Sharkey County, MS yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 9.8 hours.
Sharkey County, MS is served by local tracked utilities.
Sharkey 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
Sharkey County has been under 130 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Heat Advisory on September 2, 2026.
- Heat Advisory ×80
- Extreme Heat Warning ×34
- Special Weather Statement ×12
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning ×3
- Severe Thunderstorm Watch ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Sharkey County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Sharkey County went about 9.8 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 1,994 customers.
Worst year here was 2023 (peak 1,834 customers out) · decade average 16.8 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 138 | 404 | 3.3 |
| 2016 | 148 | 498 | 8.7 |
| 2017 | 151 | 1,994 | 14.3 |
| 2018 | 191 | 1,864 | 6.7 |
| 2019 | 161 | 671 | 10.1 |
| 2020 | 161 | 1,955 | 12.3 |
| 2021 | 285 | 826 | 19.6 |
| 2022 | 255 | 1,953 | 25.1 |
| 2023 | 266 | 1,834 | 67.2 |
| 2024 | 202 | 494 | 7.4 |
| 2025 | 253 | 804 | 9.8 |
Relatively Low hurricanes exposure · 16.8 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 Sharkey County: FAQ
- How often does Sharkey County, MS lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Sharkey County, MS logged 253 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 9.8 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Sharkey County, MS?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 1,994 customers without power, beginning June 24, 2017 and lasting about 1h.
- Is there a power outage in Sharkey County, MS right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Sharkey County, MS. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Sharkey County.
38721, 38765, 39054, 39061, 39088, 39159
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/28125 and /api/v1/counties/28125/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Mississippi customers).