Scott County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Scott County, Mississippi had 21 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.28 times the US outage time per person and 1.51 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 27 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.3major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

79 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Junhardest months

February and June made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 16, 2023, reached 14,747 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 60.5 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	7,544	9	0
2016	14,828	20	0
2017	32,345	41	1
2018	28,835	30	0
2019	125,028	37	4
2020	141,482	63	3
2021	550,849	79	8
2022	129,777	75	1
2023	358,794	63	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
Jun 16, 2023	60.5	14,747	216,814
Feb 18, 2021	79.0	9,885	178,219
Feb 17, 2021	17.8	12,650	155,331
May 4, 2021	39.8	8,934	78,697
Mar 4, 2020	33.2	8,415	62,026

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.