Pearl River County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Pearl River County, Mississippi had 6 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.95 times the US outage time per person and 0.63 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 47 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

66 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Octhardest months

August and October made up 74% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 29, 2021, reached 20,988 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 66.2 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	12,881	10	0
2016	27,400	8	0
2017	14,612	18	0
2018	7,753	11	0
2019	110,605	63	1
2020	218,270	68	2
2021	702,003	98	3
2022	45,532	56	0
2023	100,486	85	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
Aug 29, 2021	66.2	20,988	610,109
Oct 28, 2020	43.5	11,076	157,022
Oct 26, 2019	12.5	8,519	37,550
Sep 21, 2023	6.0	7,325	32,086
Oct 26, 2019	2.8	12,171	23,270

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.