Lightning strikes in Mississippi by county
The detection network has located 58,424 lightning strikes in Mississippi since the archive began, including 23,240 in the last 7 days. The table counts every strike the network placed inside a county boundary. Another 24 strikes fell inside Mississippi but outside every county polygon, mostly over coastal or lake water.
| # | County | Strikes | Last 7 days | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carroll County | 1,990 | 1,282 | 3.4% |
| 2 | Wayne County | 1,987 | 1,161 | 3.4% |
| 3 | Monroe County | 1,752 | 1,237 | 3.0% |
| 4 | Pontotoc County | 1,594 | 436 | 2.7% |
| 5 | Lafayette County | 1,588 | 127 | 2.7% |
| 6 | Leflore County | 1,573 | 545 | 2.7% |
| 7 | Lee County | 1,507 | 623 | 2.6% |
| 8 | Perry County | 1,455 | 446 | 2.5% |
| 9 | Oktibbeha County | 1,335 | 600 | 2.3% |
| 10 | Marshall County | 1,293 | 444 | 2.2% |
| 11 | Franklin County | 1,189 | 105 | 2.0% |
| 12 | Greene County | 1,182 | 360 | 2.0% |
| 13 | Jones County | 1,180 | 797 | 2.0% |
| 14 | Amite County | 1,094 | 221 | 1.9% |
| 15 | Chickasaw County | 1,020 | 564 | 1.7% |
| 16 | Union County | 1,015 | 227 | 1.7% |
| 17 | Itawamba County | 1,014 | 424 | 1.7% |
| 18 | Lincoln County | 982 | 314 | 1.7% |
| 19 | Jasper County | 970 | 83 | 1.7% |
| 20 | Panola County | 962 | 479 | 1.6% |
| 21 | Clay County | 939 | 368 | 1.6% |
| 22 | Webster County | 929 | 529 | 1.6% |
| 23 | Attala County | 905 | 280 | 1.5% |
| 24 | Montgomery County | 872 | 633 | 1.5% |
| 25 | Jackson County | 870 | 150 | 1.5% |
| 26 | Smith County | 861 | 55 | 1.5% |
| 27 | Lowndes County | 856 | 368 | 1.5% |
| 28 | Yalobusha County | 843 | 203 | 1.4% |
| 29 | Rankin County | 842 | 65 | 1.4% |
| 30 | Calhoun County | 817 | 524 | 1.4% |
| 31 | Covington County | 787 | 684 | 1.3% |
| 32 | Copiah County | 781 | 194 | 1.3% |
| 33 | Neshoba County | 777 | 46 | 1.3% |
| 34 | Clarke County | 777 | 126 | 1.3% |
| 35 | Grenada County | 754 | 309 | 1.3% |
| 36 | Lauderdale County | 731 | 89 | 1.3% |
| 37 | Pike County | 714 | 505 | 1.2% |
| 38 | Bolivar County | 709 | 26 | 1.2% |
| 39 | Noxubee County | 708 | 345 | 1.2% |
| 40 | Scott County | 707 | 79 | 1.2% |
| 41 | Kemper County | 705 | 253 | 1.2% |
| 42 | Alcorn County | 701 | 690 | 1.2% |
| 43 | Choctaw County | 666 | 392 | 1.1% |
| 44 | Simpson County | 658 | 112 | 1.1% |
| 45 | Wilkinson County | 629 | 374 | 1.1% |
| 46 | Winston County | 616 | 205 | 1.1% |
| 47 | Newton County | 613 | 108 | 1.0% |
| 48 | George County | 562 | 39 | 1.0% |
| 49 | Sunflower County | 560 | 95 | 1.0% |
| 50 | Tallahatchie County | 535 | 232 | 0.9% |
| 51 | Forrest County | 492 | 348 | 0.8% |
| 52 | Lamar County | 486 | 225 | 0.8% |
| 53 | Harrison County | 464 | 214 | 0.8% |
| 54 | Holmes County | 437 | 375 | 0.7% |
| 55 | Walthall County | 435 | 276 | 0.7% |
| 56 | Hinds County | 420 | 49 | 0.7% |
| 57 | Hancock County | 398 | 52 | 0.7% |
| 58 | Jefferson County | 378 | 246 | 0.6% |
| 59 | Benton County | 377 | 244 | 0.6% |
| 60 | Stone County | 375 | 114 | 0.6% |
| 61 | Tippah County | 364 | 241 | 0.6% |
| 62 | Lawrence County | 351 | 236 | 0.6% |
| 63 | Pearl River County | 349 | 83 | 0.6% |
| 64 | Prentiss County | 339 | 332 | 0.6% |
| 65 | Marion County | 337 | 148 | 0.6% |
| 66 | Leake County | 319 | 50 | 0.5% |
| 67 | DeSoto County | 311 | 236 | 0.5% |
| 68 | Tate County | 308 | 202 | 0.5% |
| 69 | Madison County | 295 | 59 | 0.5% |
| 70 | Warren County | 287 | 100 | 0.5% |
| 71 | Claiborne County | 272 | 147 | 0.5% |
| 72 | Tishomingo County | 258 | 237 | 0.4% |
| 73 | Yazoo County | 234 | 58 | 0.4% |
| 74 | Adams County | 226 | 132 | 0.4% |
| 75 | Jefferson Davis County | 214 | 93 | 0.4% |
| 76 | Tunica County | 193 | 50 | 0.3% |
| 77 | Quitman County | 122 | 85 | 0.2% |
| 78 | Issaquena County | 89 | 0 | 0.2% |
| 79 | Sharkey County | 62 | 0 | 0.1% |
| 80 | Humphreys County | 59 | 36 | 0.1% |
| 81 | Washington County | 24 | 7 | 0.0% |
| 82 | Coahoma County | 19 | 9 | 0.0% |
Strike positions carry the network's mean location error of about 5.6 km, so strikes near a county line can be filed one county over. Method and caveats are on the data hub; the full state table is on the United States page.
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