Greene County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2016 to 2023

Greene County, Mississippi had 7 major outages from 2016 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.37 times the US outage time per person and 2.23 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 8 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 8 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

4 of 8years with a major outage

118 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Novhardest months

October and November made up 80% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 6,467 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 118.2 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
2016	982	1	0
2017	36,844	31	2
2018	25,464	35	0
2019	17,937	27	0
2020	741,905	35	2
2021	18,884	30	1
2022	40,147	18	2
2023	20,636	21	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	118.2	6,467	541,504
Nov 2, 2020	112.2	2,670	161,393
Apr 18, 2022	14.8	3,510	21,528
Oct 8, 2017	14.8	1,579	12,827
Mar 31, 2022	13.0	2,339	9,788

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.