Rankin County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Rankin County, Mississippi had 35 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.86 times the US outage time per person and 0.57 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 50 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.9major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

106 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Aprhardest months

June and April made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 16, 2023, reached 21,096 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 106.5 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	101,774	78	0
2016	143,450	103	3
2017	272,088	106	2
2018	146,046	109	2
2019	231,702	99	3
2020	367,506	104	7
2021	563,765	110	7
2022	342,247	157	7
2023	869,278	144	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
Jun 16, 2023	106.5	21,096	566,649
Jun 17, 2017	40.5	11,174	111,141
Feb 17, 2021	16.5	9,040	110,801
May 4, 2021	30.8	13,830	99,056
Apr 18, 2019	29.5	7,139	96,686

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.