Attala County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Attala County, Mississippi had 39 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.74 times the US outage time per person and 2.47 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 7 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.3major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

122 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Junhardest months

February and June made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 18, 2021, reached 7,584 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 102.8 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	18,560	21	0
2016	20,453	26	3
2017	72,646	33	2
2018	60,856	28	6
2019	109,166	27	5
2020	115,742	47	3
2021	459,390	44	7
2022	140,930	43	6
2023	419,870	41	7

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	102.8	7,584	287,670
Jun 15, 2023	121.5	2,924	166,212
Jun 14, 2023	22.8	7,692	101,530
Feb 18, 2021	14.5	7,499	73,416
Apr 12, 2020	49.5	3,757	59,298

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.