Forrest County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Forrest County, Mississippi had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.51 times the US outage time per person and 0.34 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 58 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

62 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Novhardest months

January and November made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 21, 2017, reached 12,691 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 62.2 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	7,930	22	0
2016	17,204	23	0
2017	502,975	66	3
2018	25,523	53	0
2019	44,577	62	1
2020	141,181	46	3
2021	51,642	59	2
2022	48,154	50	0
2023	47,899	51	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
Jan 21, 2017	62.2	12,691	262,373
Oct 29, 2020	42.8	5,408	73,939
Nov 26, 2017	69.5	727	49,018
Dec 8, 2017	30.0	4,171	42,118
Apr 20, 2020	10.5	5,654	34,652

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.