Warren County, Mississippi Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Warren County, Mississippi had 66 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.04 times the US outage time per person and 2.67 times the Mississippi rate. It ranks 5 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

7.3major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

148 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Aprhardest months

June and April made up 38% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 16, 2023, reached 10,297 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 148.5 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	230,506	68	11
2016	370,507	75	6
2017	373,877	69	10
2018	63,356	72	2
2019	493,762	83	7
2020	226,129	71	7
2021	967,568	72	7
2022	245,000	104	8
2023	775,786	78	8

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	148.5	10,297	575,988
Feb 18, 2021	102.2	7,629	401,200
Apr 13, 2019	75.8	7,822	352,155
May 4, 2021	74.5	9,597	332,836
Mar 17, 2016	49.2	7,754	158,137

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.