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Who serves Lauderdale County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Mississippi Power ↗ and East Mississippi EPA, 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 — Lauderdale County, MS
Last significant outage: Sep 21, 2026 — peaked at 1,199 customers, restored in ~13 hr (wind/storm).
Across the 16 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.4 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 28, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Lauderdale County, MS
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
504 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
6 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
2.3 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: ~33,939 customers out in May 2021, restored after about 32.5 hr. 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 Lauderdale County
Communities in Lauderdale County include Meridian, Marion, Collinsville, Meridian Station, Nellieburg and Toomsuba. 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 Lauderdale County, MS?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Lauderdale include Mississippi Power and East Mississippi EPA — 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.
