Choctaw County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Choctaw County, Mississippi had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.41 times the US outage time per person and 0.93 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 34 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

56 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Octhardest months

February and October made up 56% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 18, 2021, reached 2,982 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 55.5 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	5,162	5	0
2016	8,809	7	0
2017	8,390	14	0
2018	17,662	16	1
2019	43,410	17	2
2020	35,828	13	1
2021	104,884	13	2
2022	11,350	13	0
2023	14,814	20	1

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Feb 18, 2021	55.5	2,982	67,971
Feb 18, 2021	13.5	2,886	29,516
Apr 13, 2020	33.8	1,947	26,708
Oct 26, 2019	27.5	2,820	26,159
Mar 29, 2018	12.8	1,450	7,221

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.