Claiborne County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Claiborne County, Mississippi had 38 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 8.39 times the US outage time per person and 5.55 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 1 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.2major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

116 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Octhardest months

February and October made up 54% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 18, 2021, reached 4,749 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 88.8 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	3,158	5	0
2016	4,548	5	1
2017	45,786	15	5
2018	8,454	3	1
2019	54,187	20	3
2020	337,682	75	7
2021	728,562	50	7
2022	144,504	62	11
2023	173,386	50	3

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	88.8	4,749	328,727
Oct 10, 2020	115.8	3,695	213,611
Jun 16, 2023	86.2	3,538	103,572
Feb 22, 2021	34.0	2,609	78,283
Feb 23, 2021	79.8	2,138	77,730

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.