Lauderdale County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lauderdale County, Mississippi had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.35 times the US outage time per person and 0.89 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 36 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

50 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Mayhardest months

February and May made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 4, 2021, reached 33,939 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 47.2 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Mississippi counties

MostLeast

Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

0.5M

1.5M

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	9,221	25	0
2016	19,592	29	0
2017	30,434	31	1
2018	74,961	19	1
2019	52,178	41	2
2020	225,696	79	4
2021	1,108,161	86	5
2022	146,693	71	1
2023	423,205	79	2

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

10%

20%

30%

40%

JanJFebFMarMAprAMayMJunJJulJAugASepSOctONovNDecD

Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
May 4, 2021	47.2	33,939	377,880
Mar 27, 2023	42.5	17,918	247,727
Feb 17, 2021	16.2	18,997	228,744
Jun 13, 2021	45.0	15,594	180,995
Feb 18, 2021	50.0	13,852	128,288

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.

Look up another county

Counties ranked nearby

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.