Mississippi County, Arkansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Mississippi County, Arkansas had 34 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.61 times the US outage time per person and 1.31 times the Arkansas rate. It ranks 33 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.8major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

82 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Marhardest months

April and March made up 34% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 30, 2017, reached 7,688 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 70.8 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	115,472	53	4
2016	95,917	49	4
2017	338,931	41	3
2018	159,053	46	5
2019	36,726	38	0
2020	110,120	36	5
2021	172,523	61	3
2022	174,658	56	4
2023	147,182	50	6

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
Apr 30, 2017	70.8	7,688	171,201
Mar 1, 2017	35.5	6,806	93,126
Dec 11, 2021	67.8	2,700	83,797
Feb 24, 2022	81.8	1,869	71,106
Jun 25, 2023	59.2	1,902	48,276

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.