Wayne County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.70 times the US outage time per person and 0.46 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 53 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.7major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

89 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Junhardest months

October and June made up 51% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 2,520 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 89.0 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	52	1	0
2016	4,554	7	0
2017	62,539	60	5
2018	8,464	17	0
2019	12,532	22	1
2020	118,996	35	5
2021	16,112	18	1
2022	32,681	27	1
2023	46,270	13	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
Oct 29, 2020	89.0	2,520	75,987
Jun 16, 2023	12.0	3,397	18,156
Jun 17, 2023	23.5	1,588	16,338
Nov 26, 2017	66.0	400	13,388
Mar 31, 2022	21.5	1,439	10,540

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.