Holmes County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Holmes County, Mississippi had 28 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.36 times the US outage time per person and 1.56 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 26 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.1major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

115 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Marhardest months

June and March made up 50% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 15, 2023, reached 3,296 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 114.8 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	33,028	28	1
2016	23,434	24	2
2017	99,549	26	2
2018	44,778	23	3
2019	6,842	5	1
2020	34,488	9	2
2021	130,765	27	5
2022	163,271	31	4
2023	271,902	34	8

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 15, 2023	114.8	3,296	135,910
Mar 22, 2022	76.8	3,900	104,114
Jun 14, 2023	23.5	3,987	77,758
Feb 18, 2021	78.8	2,537	63,397
Apr 30, 2017	60.5	2,763	62,165

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.