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Who serves Hancock County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Mississippi Power ↗, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Coast Electric Power Association also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Hancock County, MS
Last significant outage: Sep 17, 2026 — peaked at 713 customers, restored in ~30 min (no severe weather).
Across the 6 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.1 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 22, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Hancock County, MS
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
280 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
1 major event of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
1.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the Mississippi norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~20,924 customers out in October 2020, restored after about 5.3 days. The busiest year on record here was 2021.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Cities we track in Hancock County
Communities in Hancock County include Bay St. Louis, Diamondhead, Waveland, Kiln and Pearlington. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Hancock County, MS?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Hancock include Mississippi Power and Coast Electric Power Association — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
