Lawrence County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lawrence County, Mississippi had 26 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.72 times the US outage time per person and 1.80 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 19 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.9major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

58 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Febhardest months

June and February made up 38% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 8, 2017, reached 5,128 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 48.0 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	3,570	6	0
2016	36,649	38	0
2017	135,364	42	3
2018	13,643	31	0
2019	80,981	42	4
2020	66,960	39	4
2021	199,272	33	10
2022	39,476	28	1
2023	122,838	33	4

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
Dec 8, 2017	48.0	5,128	72,732
Jun 16, 2023	57.8	3,323	69,959
Feb 15, 2021	33.2	4,076	41,280
Aug 30, 2021	34.8	2,461	36,293
Feb 17, 2021	38.5	1,793	33,981

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.