Jasper County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Jasper County, Mississippi had 24 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.52 times the US outage time per person and 1.67 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 24 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.7major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

108 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Febhardest months

June and February made up 41% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 16, 2023, reached 5,977 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 107.5 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	7,446	7	0
2016	30,302	20	2
2017	150,038	32	4
2018	31,112	30	1
2019	73,236	42	2
2020	157,536	45	5
2021	200,238	29	5
2022	52,258	30	2
2023	173,407	31	3

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
Jun 16, 2023	107.5	5,977	129,336
Feb 15, 2021	71.8	3,547	115,478
Dec 8, 2017	30.8	12,351	104,444
Apr 13, 2020	23.0	3,745	57,956
May 4, 2021	26.2	2,597	30,219

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.