Wilkinson County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Wilkinson County, Mississippi had 44 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.

4.9major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

400 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aughardest months

October and August made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 10, 2020, reached 6,547 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 165.0 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	14,617	13	1
2016	49,117	15	2
2017	6,353	11	1
2018	19,730	16	1
2019	86,403	27	5
2020	803,316	56	11
2021	371,427	67	10
2022	121,718	69	5
2023	145,170	57	8

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 10, 2020	165.0	6,547	441,286
Aug 30, 2021	116.5	4,140	211,162
Feb 3, 2020	399.8	462	90,187
Jan 20, 2020	325.2	290	72,395
Aug 27, 2020	51.2	3,270	50,855

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.
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