Hinds County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Hinds County, Mississippi had 78 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.80 times the US outage time per person and 1.85 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 18 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

8.7major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

178 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Febhardest months

June and February made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 16, 2023, reached 35,551 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 177.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Mississippi counties

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	642,123	241	7
2016	687,698	243	7
2017	1,362,274	255	12
2018	526,836	238	6
2019	907,206	285	7
2020	968,943	275	11
2021	3,379,410	286	11
2022	1,115,347	330	10
2023	3,460,819	290	7

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
Jun 16, 2023	177.8	35,551	2,543,372
Feb 18, 2021	123.0	32,217	1,286,527
May 4, 2021	79.5	32,662	910,196
Jun 17, 2017	50.2	23,970	429,174
Feb 17, 2021	18.0	33,873	410,929

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.