Jones County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Jones County, Mississippi had 25 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.77 times the US outage time per person and 0.51 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 52 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.8major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

76 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Dechardest months

April and December made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 17, 2019, reached 7,372 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 31.8 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	9,186	18	0
2016	14,465	26	0
2017	331,148	85	9
2018	25,885	41	1
2019	201,787	67	2
2020	275,487	56	6
2021	76,511	50	2
2022	67,574	61	2
2023	114,132	54	3

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
Dec 17, 2019	31.8	7,372	147,650
Apr 12, 2020	75.5	4,408	120,832
Nov 26, 2017	69.5	1,101	70,076
Dec 8, 2017	33.5	3,771	48,093
Oct 29, 2017	61.5	731	43,931

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.