Oktibbeha County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Oktibbeha County, Mississippi had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.25 times the US outage time per person and 0.17 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 64 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

53 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Junhardest months

February and June made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 18, 2021, reached 2,991 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 53.0 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	4,252	8	0
2016	2,930	6	0
2017	17,681	30	0
2018	24,964	34	0
2019	33,384	26	2
2020	36,147	21	1
2021	125,551	32	2
2022	28,991	26	0
2023	13,349	22	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
Feb 18, 2021	53.0	2,991	61,548
Feb 18, 2021	13.0	3,194	27,905
Apr 13, 2020	19.0	1,304	15,365
Oct 26, 2019	13.8	1,802	10,489
Dec 24, 2022	6.0	3,834	10,452

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.