Kemper County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2016 to 2023

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Kemper County, Mississippi had 8 major outages from 2016 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 8 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

4 of 8years with a major outage

94 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Junhardest months

February and June made up 81% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 18, 2021, reached 7,947 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
2016	2,233	2	0
2017	0	0	0
2018	0	0	0
2019	13,626	10	0
2020	19,969	20	1
2021	347,719	21	5
2022	15,070	19	1
2023	47,850	25	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	7,947	155,934
Feb 17, 2021	17.0	7,921	88,318
Feb 15, 2021	50.0	3,572	47,368
Jun 13, 2021	25.8	3,443	30,554
Jul 13, 2023	7.0	3,886	20,989

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

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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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