Sharkey County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Sharkey County, Mississippi had 15 major outages from 2015 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 9 years of records.

1.7major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

90 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Dechardest months

March and December made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 25, 2023, reached 1,834 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 90.5 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	4,421	4	0
2016	14,698	12	2
2017	25,792	12	2
2018	8,704	6	1
2019	15,627	6	2
2020	14,578	10	1
2021	28,730	12	2
2022	40,876	12	2
2023	131,427	17	3

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
Mar 25, 2023	90.5	1,834	97,167
Dec 14, 2022	39.5	1,953	31,466
Mar 28, 2023	48.8	841	18,047
Apr 3, 2017	24.8	388	9,202
Feb 18, 2021	13.0	826	9,006

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.