Walthall County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Walthall County, Mississippi had 25 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.86 times the US outage time per person and 1.89 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 17 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.8major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

76 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Dechardest months

February and December made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 6,121 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 76.0 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	13,928	7	1
2016	3,512	6	0
2017	163,086	41	7
2018	26,027	23	1
2019	67,306	30	5
2020	94,414	40	4
2021	434,200	32	6
2022	28,844	25	0
2023	40,288	34	1

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
Feb 15, 2021	76.0	6,121	239,544
Aug 30, 2021	75.8	3,676	71,767
Dec 9, 2017	22.8	2,921	50,216
Apr 10, 2021	40.0	1,849	37,710
Sep 3, 2021	38.8	1,324	25,911

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.