Clark County, Arkansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Clark County, Arkansas had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.72 times the US outage time per person and 1.40 times the Arkansas rate. It ranks 30 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

70 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Febhardest months

April and February made up 71% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 13, 2020, reached 7,014 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 70.5 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	165,176	32	3
2016	70,291	21	2
2017	18,661	10	0
2018	18,382	15	0
2019	19,811	20	1
2020	332,684	26	3
2021	24,703	18	3
2022	24,782	26	1
2023	117,962	18	3

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	7,014	262,809
Feb 16, 2015	32.0	5,735	103,912
Feb 2, 2023	45.5	6,725	91,183
Jul 14, 2016	29.2	2,804	33,312
Feb 17, 2015	26.0	2,713	25,398

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.