Covington County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Covington County, Mississippi had 20 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.69 times the US outage time per person and 1.78 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 20 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.2major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

63 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Junhardest months

April and June made up 42% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 16, 2023, reached 5,442 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 60.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Mississippi counties

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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	17,524	12	0
2016	32,647	44	0
2017	205,752	35	3
2018	17,406	32	0
2019	177,317	40	2
2020	224,597	59	7
2021	166,428	37	3
2022	40,943	29	1
2023	185,886	36	4

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
Jun 16, 2023	60.8	5,442	138,115
Oct 26, 2019	55.2	6,552	129,234
Dec 8, 2017	25.5	13,579	113,472
Feb 15, 2021	57.2	3,276	101,370
Apr 13, 2020	23.0	6,431	66,626

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.