Madison County, Arkansas Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Madison County, Arkansas had 3 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.00 times the US outage time per person and 0.82 times the Arkansas rate. It ranks 48 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

2 of 7years with a major outage

46 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Dechardest months

January and December made up 73% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 25, 2023, reached 3,762 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 45.5 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2017	2,988	4	0
2018	51,576	10	1
2019	15,434	25	0
2020	14,780	10	0
2021	23,015	21	0
2022	12,152	18	0
2023	186,664	17	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	45.5	3,762	89,422
Jan 25, 2023	20.8	6,134	77,499
Dec 1, 2018	27.2	4,084	43,244
Sep 22, 2023	2.8	1,759	4,835
Aug 20, 2023	1.0	4,654	4,652

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.