Jackson County, Arkansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Jackson County, Arkansas had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.87 times the US outage time per person and 0.71 times the Arkansas rate. It ranks 53 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

45 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Aughardest months

March and August made up 54% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 1, 2017, reached 3,306 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 45.0 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	7,489	14	0
2016	18,410	13	1
2017	110,359	14	1
2018	64,741	18	2
2019	27,810	17	0
2020	20,275	11	1
2021	12,165	14	0
2022	33,160	28	1
2023	24,055	18	1

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
Mar 1, 2017	45.0	3,306	85,823
Aug 6, 2018	30.8	1,506	27,276
Dec 9, 2018	18.2	2,561	22,100
Aug 28, 2020	19.0	941	13,830
Feb 25, 2022	11.0	761	6,524

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.