Simpson County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Simpson County, Mississippi had 29 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.03 times the US outage time per person and 2.01 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 15 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.2major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

111 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Febhardest months

June and February made up 51% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 16, 2023, reached 8,287 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 111.0 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	32,170	35	0
2016	123,830	60	3
2017	235,061	71	3
2018	40,402	62	1
2019	175,144	83	2
2020	151,202	78	6
2021	379,505	43	5
2022	117,780	64	3
2023	453,252	49	6

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	111.0	8,287	352,117
Feb 18, 2021	56.5	5,304	107,033
Dec 8, 2017	33.0	10,727	91,876
Feb 17, 2021	17.8	6,502	91,807
Jun 17, 2017	47.8	4,556	80,147

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.