Marion County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Marion County, Mississippi had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.83 times the US outage time per person and 0.55 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 51 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

33 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Aprhardest months

December and April made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 8, 2017, reached 3,364 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 24.2 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
2015	5,119	11	0
2016	32,028	3	0
2017	114,020	28	2
2018	14,666	25	0
2019	69,716	26	2
2020	15,698	14	1
2021	134,752	26	3
2022	25,628	34	0
2023	26,088	32	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	24.2	3,364	60,317
Apr 10, 2021	33.0	6,669	58,614
Oct 26, 2019	28.0	5,401	46,046
Aug 30, 2021	19.8	3,568	36,920
Dec 9, 2017	17.2	2,981	31,298

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.