Columbia County, Arkansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Columbia County, Arkansas had 39 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.26 times the US outage time per person and 1.84 times the Arkansas rate. It ranks 22 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.3major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

86 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Junhardest months

April and June made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 20, 2019, reached 4,001 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 86.5 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	68,216	47	3
2016	80,488	29	4
2017	63,284	28	1
2018	31,911	33	1
2019	228,240	40	6
2020	332,480	41	8
2021	102,441	38	4
2022	61,836	45	4
2023	126,698	51	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 20, 2019	86.5	4,001	145,788
Aug 28, 2020	69.5	3,521	112,027
Apr 13, 2020	70.5	2,842	100,862
Jul 1, 2017	30.5	2,764	43,094
Aug 27, 2020	10.2	6,114	42,264

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.