Mississippi: official power outage sources

If your power is out

1. Stay away from downed lines and anything touching them. Call 911.
2. Report it to your own utility. The name and outage phone number are on your electric bill. Do not assume a neighbor has reported it.
3. Check your utility's outage page for the area affected and any restoration estimate. Only your utility can give that estimate.

More on staying safe during an outage

Utility outage pages

Each link covers only that utility's own customers. If your provider is not listed here, use the directories in the next section.

• Entergy Mississippi Utility website Choose Mississippi from Entergy's site to find outage information. entergy.com
• Mississippi Power Outage page Outage map by county. Covers Mississippi Power customers only. outagemap.mississippipower.com
• Coast Electric Power Association Outage page Report an outage or view the co-op's outage map. coastelectric.coop

Official state sources

Use these to find out which utility serves an address, to reach the regulator, and to follow state emergency information.

• Mississippi Public Utilities Staff: electric Regulator Information on the state's regulated electric utilities. mpus.ms.gov
• Mississippi Public Utilities Staff: utility search Provider directory Official starting point for looking up utilities. The linked search tool may load slowly. mpus.ms.gov
• Electric Cooperatives of Mississippi: member co-ops Provider directory Find your electric power association. ecm.coop
• Mississippi Emergency Management Agency Emergency management Disaster and recovery updates. msema.org
• National Weather Service Weather alerts Enter your town or ZIP code for current watches and warnings. A weather warning is not an outage prediction. weather.gov

Good to know in Mississippi

• The two big utilities' maps do not cover co-op or city utility customers; check with your own provider.
• Cooperative Energy and TVA sell power to local co-ops and cities, but your local provider is the one to call about an outage.
• There is no single outage map that covers every utility in Mississippi.
• On Entergy's storm maps, line colors do not always show whether a particular home has power, and restoration estimates can change.

The wider grid

Regional grid organizations and balancing areas that cover all or part of Mississippi: MISO; Southern Company; TVA. They balance supply and demand on the high-voltage system. Their alerts describe the regional system, not an outage on your street. How the pieces fit together