Panola County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Panola County, Mississippi had 27 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.60 times the US outage time per person and 1.06 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 32 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.0major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

70 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Marhardest months

April and March made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 13, 2020, reached 8,779 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 70.2 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	26,342	25	2
2016	8,273	12	0
2017	36,829	28	2
2018	49,935	44	3
2019	68,202	37	3
2020	429,399	53	4
2021	73,292	51	3
2022	205,798	67	3
2023	254,893	51	7

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
Apr 13, 2020	70.2	8,779	293,504
Feb 1, 2023	69.8	6,838	133,738
Mar 30, 2022	53.0	7,443	119,037
Jan 11, 2020	38.5	9,209	80,602
Mar 25, 2023	21.5	2,749	24,576

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.