DeSoto County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

DeSoto County, Mississippi had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.40 times the US outage time per person and 0.27 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 60 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

76 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Mayhardest months

February and May made up 36% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 3, 2022, reached 8,123 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 76.5 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	156,751	56	1
2016	53,080	39	0
2017	260,906	42	2
2018	75,748	61	1
2019	107,328	60	1
2020	321,210	50	3
2021	105,972	57	1
2022	328,043	64	4
2023	325,759	77	3

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 3, 2022	76.5	8,123	178,766
May 28, 2017	63.5	9,224	173,196
Feb 2, 2023	63.5	4,430	138,751
Jan 12, 2020	38.5	4,516	76,298
Jun 18, 2023	37.2	8,309	57,694

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.