Winston County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2019 to 2023

Winston County, Mississippi had 5 major outages from 2019 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.41 times the US outage time per person and 1.59 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 25 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 5 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

4 of 5years with a major outage

94 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Octhardest months

February and October made up 79% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 18, 2021, reached 9,110 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 93.5 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2019	32,914	7	1
2020	41,296	22	0
2021	365,446	16	2
2022	28,257	15	1
2023	44,939	38	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 18, 2021	93.5	9,110	259,504
Feb 18, 2021	13.8	10,567	89,582
Apr 14, 2022	37.8	1,410	21,929
Oct 26, 2019	22.0	2,502	16,806
Jun 18, 2023	10.0	3,604	16,666

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.