City of Starkville, MS
Power reliability at City of Starkville
City of Starkville customers in Mississippi rarely lose power at all: 0.4 interruptions last year, adding up to just 50 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 90% less outage time than the Mississippi state average of 8.4 hours a year.
How long a single City of Starkville outage runs
A typical outage here runs about 2.3 hours - long enough that a battery alone usually will not see you through, but short enough that a fuel-powered portable generator is a reasonable match. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for City of Starkville
Most City of Starkville customers keep power almost all year. Serving 15,671 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
The source behind this number
City of Starkville filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Mississippi territory, serving 15,671 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Mississippi average instead of just this one utility? Mississippi's statewide record is here. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.