Pike County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Pike County, Mississippi had 34 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.28 times the US outage time per person and 2.17 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 9 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.8major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

174 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Aprhardest months

August and April made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 30, 2021, reached 12,148 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 173.5 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	103,166	32	3
2016	40,076	39	0
2017	393,410	60	3
2018	121,597	73	4
2019	289,206	59	3
2020	492,924	75	9
2021	1,132,992	78	7
2022	79,852	58	1
2023	157,708	61	4

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 30, 2021	173.5	12,148	645,184
Dec 8, 2017	83.2	11,596	308,920
Feb 15, 2021	73.0	7,462	211,268
May 9, 2019	59.0	8,566	193,944
Oct 10, 2020	46.0	11,114	153,466

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.