Jackson County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Jackson County, Mississippi had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.20 times the US outage time per person and 0.79 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 42 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

120 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 28, 2020, reached 54,222 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 120.0 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	33,408	30	0
2016	27,336	43	0
2017	557,773	148	1
2018	119,977	102	0
2019	92,559	115	0
2020	2,711,718	129	4
2021	142,838	141	2
2022	80,461	136	0
2023	118,190	103	1

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 28, 2020	120.0	54,222	2,406,414
Oct 8, 2017	42.8	30,090	447,893
Nov 2, 2020	112.2	4,372	118,051
Sep 15, 2020	23.0	9,988	85,504
Jun 19, 2023	30.8	6,289	35,716

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.