Tallahatchie County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Tallahatchie County, Mississippi had 30 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.12 times the US outage time per person and 2.06 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 13 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.3major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

70 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Janhardest months

April and January made up 49% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 13, 2020, reached 6,026 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 70.5 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	36,244	27	4
2016	58,335	15	3
2017	31,248	20	2
2018	37,370	31	1
2019	21,754	30	0
2020	380,266	54	10
2021	84,457	42	6
2022	77,060	24	3
2023	22,350	22	1

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
Apr 13, 2020	70.5	6,026	204,660
Jan 12, 2020	38.5	2,001	54,438
Nov 28, 2016	22.2	1,567	32,649
Jan 11, 2020	15.8	2,135	31,183
Mar 30, 2022	31.0	2,387	28,754

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.