Leake County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Leake County, Mississippi had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.13 times the US outage time per person and 0.75 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 44 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

56 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Junhardest months

February and June made up 47% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 18, 2021, reached 4,703 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 55.8 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	3,990	8	0
2016	7,236	7	1
2017	7,862	11	0
2018	29,002	6	0
2019	42,246	16	3
2020	49,094	54	1
2021	233,384	55	3
2022	64,158	75	2
2023	97,934	56	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
Feb 18, 2021	55.8	4,703	74,955
May 4, 2021	29.5	6,252	63,205
Feb 18, 2021	15.0	4,703	45,385
Jun 14, 2023	22.5	3,690	24,823
Jun 19, 2023	14.5	2,858	24,238

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.