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Mississippi Hazards

Live weather alerts, flooding, wildfires, drought and earthquakes in Mississippi, with links to its disaster history.

Collected automatically and may be delayed. Not an official warning. In an emergency, call 911.

Weather alerts by hazard

Alert details

No active National Weather Service alerts in Mississippi.

Rivers at or near flood stage

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No river gauges in Mississippi are at or forecast to reach flood stage.

Active wildfires

National
  • Range 47B FireForrest County636 acres50% contained
  • Copiah - Leggett Rd & Shelton Weeks Rd FireCopiah County419 acres100% contained
  • Jasper CR 25 FireJasper County287 acres100% contained
  • CR 99 Mingo FireTishomingo County200 acres75% contained
  • Pontotoc Pennington Rd FirePontotoc County171 acres100% contained
  • Mount Pilgrim Road FireMadison County150 acres100% contained
  • Neshoba - CR Rd 832 FireNeshoba County150 acres100% contained
  • Webster - Bailey Road FireWebster County147 acres100% contained
  • Columbia Purvis Rd. FireMarion County143 acres100% contained
  • Claiborne - Freeman Hall FireClaiborne County130 acres100% contained
  • Carroll - Co Rd 128 FireCarroll County125 acres100% contained
  • Hinds North Chapel Hill Rd FireHinds County117 acres100% contained
  • Stuck FireNewton County77 acres
  • 2811 FireNewton County6 acres
  • Turkey Creek FireWilkinson County5 acres
  • Kimbrough Chapel Rd FireMarshall County5 acres100% contained
  • Mt. Baldy FirePerry County1 acre
  • Lagoon Road FireWinston County0 acres
  • 106 FireKemper County0 acres
  • Cutter FirePerry County0 acres
  • Honeymoon FireBenton County0 acres

Drought

National

Drought statistics for Mississippi are temporarily unavailable.

Drought by county (78 of 82 counties in drought)

Earthquakes in the last 30 days

Magnitude 2.5 and up

National

No earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or more in Mississippi in the last 30 days.

History

NOAA records

Full history

Hurricanes and tropical storms

  • Francine (2024), Category 2 at peak
  • Ida (2021), Category 4 at peak
  • Claudette (2021)
  • Zeta (2020), Category 3 at peak
  • Delta (2020), Category 4 at peak
  • Beta (2020)

Notable storms in the last 10 years

  • Tornado, Sharkey (03/25/2023), 14 deaths
  • Tornado, Monroe (03/25/2023), 2 deaths
  • Tornado, Jones (04/12/2020), 4 deaths
  • Tornado, Forrest (01/21/2017), 4 deaths
  • Tornado, Lee (04/01/2023)
  • Tornado, Jefferson Davis (04/12/2020), 4 deaths