George County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

George County, Mississippi had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.17 times the US outage time per person and 2.10 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 12 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

119 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Novhardest months

October and November made up 88% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 14,673 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 119.0 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	2,212	3	0
2016	1,074	2	0
2017	101,899	37	1
2018	35,445	49	0
2019	24,464	48	1
2020	1,543,125	49	5
2021	39,538	54	0
2022	16,244	32	0
2023	42,876	45	0

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
Oct 29, 2020	119.0	14,673	1,170,238
Nov 2, 2020	112.2	5,380	306,535
Oct 8, 2017	34.8	7,405	90,445
Apr 23, 2020	8.8	5,057	16,898
Nov 7, 2020	24.8	957	10,861

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.