Quitman County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Quitman County, Mississippi had 12 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.63 times the US outage time per person and 1.74 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 23 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

70 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Aprhardest months

January and April made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 13, 2020, reached 1,448 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 70.2 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Mississippi counties

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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	14,146	17	0
2016	19,410	12	1
2017	8,493	15	0
2018	10,452	13	0
2019	7,114	10	1
2020	181,084	16	4
2021	16,146	14	0
2022	35,617	14	4
2023	28,887	11	2

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	1,448	63,594
Jan 11, 2020	22.0	3,220	57,082
Jan 12, 2020	38.5	2,268	45,718
Feb 2, 2023	30.8	1,069	11,957
Jun 27, 2022	15.5	794	8,875

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.