Crittenden County, Arkansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Crittenden County, Arkansas had 19 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.02 times the US outage time per person and 0.83 times the Arkansas rate. It ranks 46 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.1major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

115 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Marhardest months

February and March made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 24, 2022, reached 7,850 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 115.2 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	82,705	38	3
2016	61,112	30	0
2017	59,032	34	1
2018	51,791	30	1
2019	91,256	35	2
2020	98,672	24	2
2021	40,898	31	1
2022	377,467	61	3
2023	182,306	49	6

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
Feb 24, 2022	115.2	7,850	250,251
Mar 31, 2023	18.8	6,038	79,064
May 22, 2020	49.8	4,570	65,114
Mar 30, 2022	24.5	6,055	22,929
Feb 3, 2022	31.2	794	18,872

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.