Copiah County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Copiah County, Mississippi had 47 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.75 times the US outage time per person and 3.14 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 4 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

123 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Junhardest months

February and June made up 50% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 18, 2021, reached 11,948 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 123.0 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	66,272	31	2
2016	136,317	55	2
2017	219,902	36	6
2018	54,060	49	2
2019	112,993	55	3
2020	442,743	99	12
2021	1,201,734	66	9
2022	117,182	65	5
2023	528,012	60	6

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	123.0	11,948	649,102
Jun 16, 2023	101.8	10,036	326,153
Feb 17, 2021	18.2	12,611	192,164
Aug 30, 2021	62.5	8,302	186,969
Oct 10, 2020	93.0	5,909	143,234

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.