Sunflower County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Sunflower County, Mississippi had 17 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.14 times the US outage time per person and 0.75 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 43 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.9major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

46 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Aughardest months

January and August made up 54% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 12, 2020, reached 2,929 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 38.5 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	28,881	30	1
2016	28,064	29	0
2017	34,263	33	2
2018	33,166	20	1
2019	27,691	18	1
2020	273,064	26	5
2021	77,822	37	2
2022	41,169	40	3
2023	31,289	16	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
Jan 12, 2020	38.5	2,929	108,108
Jan 11, 2020	15.8	3,864	56,684
Aug 12, 2021	20.2	1,817	36,578
Apr 13, 2020	45.8	1,868	35,588
Jan 14, 2020	23.5	2,670	32,161

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.