Tallahatchie Valley E P A, MS
Tallahatchie Valley E P A's outage record
15 hours without electricity across 5 separate outages - Tallahatchie Valley E P A's record for Mississippi puts it near the bottom of every utility on file. That is 79% more outage time than the Mississippi state average of 8.4 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
A single outage here runs long, about 3 hours on average - past what a battery or portable unit comfortably covers, which is where a standby generator with its own fuel line matters. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 28,751 customers here, Tallahatchie Valley E P A is among the least reliable grids in the country on file. You should get a generator here; going without one means betting against the grid's own filed history.
How Tallahatchie Valley E P A's record was measured
Tallahatchie Valley E P A filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Mississippi territory, serving 28,751 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Mississippi is covered too: see Mississippi's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.