Neshoba County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Neshoba County, Mississippi had 10 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.09 times the US outage time per person and 2.04 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 14 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

4 of 7years with a major outage

94 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Mayhardest months

February and May made up 82% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 18, 2021, reached 14,123 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 93.5 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
2017	79	1	0
2018	1,641	3	0
2019	1,278	5	0
2020	44,102	64	1
2021	1,292,698	82	5
2022	96,458	73	2
2023	97,358	66	2

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	93.5	14,123	795,560
Feb 15, 2021	70.8	13,176	261,922
May 4, 2021	40.5	7,169	83,799
Feb 22, 2021	29.2	3,515	69,828
Apr 14, 2022	21.8	3,916	38,468

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.