Madison County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Madison County, Mississippi had 54 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.29 times the US outage time per person and 0.86 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 40 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

6.0major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

116 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Marhardest months

June and March made up 42% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 15, 2023, reached 16,661 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 116.2 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	179,908	107	4
2016	190,327	76	5
2017	223,152	85	7
2018	124,464	94	2
2019	216,360	53	2
2020	458,085	81	6
2021	654,422	111	9
2022	491,090	122	11
2023	714,207	94	8

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 15, 2023	116.2	16,661	434,754
Mar 4, 2020	61.2	14,657	259,261
May 4, 2021	69.8	11,930	217,531
Feb 18, 2021	81.0	6,076	150,972
Apr 13, 2019	50.0	5,537	98,343

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.