Lamar County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lamar County, Mississippi had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.35 times the US outage time per person and 0.23 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 61 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

38 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Octhardest months

December and October made up 38% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 8, 2017, reached 8,781 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 37.8 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.

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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	3,328	2	0
2016	21,800	11	1
2017	132,074	34	1
2018	48,773	45	0
2019	55,832	48	2
2020	85,050	25	2
2021	70,409	50	3
2022	36,513	38	0
2023	55,320	62	0

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 8, 2017	37.8	8,781	95,754
Oct 29, 2020	21.8	4,283	45,851
Aug 30, 2021	10.0	3,507	19,419
Apr 21, 2020	17.2	1,278	19,113
Apr 10, 2021	9.2	2,575	13,618

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.