Izard County, Arkansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Izard County, Arkansas had 13 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.08 times the US outage time per person and 1.69 times the Arkansas rate. It ranks 25 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

51 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Mayhardest months

January and May made up 58% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 25, 2023, reached 6,014 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 50.8 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	8,258	10	0
2016	35,078	12	1
2017	60,905	15	3
2018	24,426	21	1
2019	5,993	5	0
2020	54,272	42	2
2021	62,831	32	2
2022	122,193	53	2
2023	281,476	27	2

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
Jan 25, 2023	50.8	6,014	151,366
Jan 25, 2023	20.8	8,041	100,395
May 21, 2022	21.5	3,237	38,786
Mar 1, 2017	33.8	2,122	29,704
Jan 18, 2016	12.0	3,545	27,616

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.