Washington County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Washington County, Mississippi had 33 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.21 times the US outage time per person and 0.80 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 41 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.7major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

42 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Janhardest months

June and January made up 41% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 18, 2016, reached 6,687 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 27.5 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	57,006	62	0
2016	145,268	48	4
2017	104,006	66	3
2018	77,012	46	4
2019	102,838	45	6
2020	204,061	40	6
2021	64,880	42	1
2022	200,886	47	5
2023	141,854	62	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 18, 2016	27.5	6,687	97,234
Jun 26, 2022	29.8	3,732	64,254
May 15, 2022	42.2	4,134	63,583
Jan 11, 2020	15.8	5,444	54,660
Jan 12, 2020	38.5	2,588	46,139

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.