Miller County, Arkansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Miller County, Arkansas had 29 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 0.70 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.

3.2major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

29 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Aprhardest months

June and April made up 39% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 10, 2021, reached 6,912 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 23.2 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	36,232	25	0
2016	42,832	30	2
2017	89,555	32	2
2018	67,781	43	2
2019	118,610	42	6
2020	55,066	43	1
2021	166,081	45	3
2022	115,538	33	6
2023	107,513	44	7

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
Apr 10, 2021	23.2	6,912	62,915
May 22, 2022	16.0	3,099	29,151
Jul 3, 2018	24.0	2,940	28,984
Mar 28, 2021	12.8	4,731	27,082
Jun 27, 2022	20.8	3,274	26,872

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.