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Who serves Lamar County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Pearl River Valley EPA, Mississippi Power ↗ and Southern Pine Electric ↗, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Lamar County, MS
Last significant outage: Sep 21, 2026 — peaked at 2,419 customers, restored in ~3 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 10 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 1.8 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 — Lamar County, MS
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
394 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
1.8 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: ~8,781 customers out in December 2017, restored after about 35.3 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
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.
Communities covered
Communities in Lamar County include Sumrall, Purvis, Lumberton, Arnold Line, Baxterville, Oak Grove and West Hattiesburg. 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 Lamar County, MS?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Lamar include Pearl River Valley EPA, Mississippi Power and Southern Pine Electric — 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.
