Perry County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Perry County, Mississippi had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.34 times the US outage time per person and 0.89 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 38 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

92 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Novhardest months

October and November made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 4,597 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 92.2 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	2,552	3	0
2016	3,804	1	0
2017	59,153	69	1
2018	12,242	22	0
2019	16,453	24	0
2020	157,836	33	4
2021	32,018	22	1
2022	29,702	25	1
2023	22,586	32	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
Oct 29, 2020	92.2	4,597	118,889
Nov 26, 2017	69.5	722	34,574
Apr 20, 2020	11.8	2,984	17,610
Apr 18, 2022	21.2	2,034	15,761
Apr 24, 2021	13.8	1,804	12,009

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.