Ashley County, Arkansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Ashley County, Arkansas had 27 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.64 times the US outage time per person and 2.96 times the Arkansas rate. It ranks 5 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.0major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

88 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Junhardest months

August and June made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 18, 2023, reached 5,090 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 88.0 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	65,386	37	3
2016	79,190	27	1
2017	84,120	22	1
2018	200,703	24	4
2019	34,206	24	1
2020	540,336	48	9
2021	40,048	21	3
2022	90,596	22	1
2023	306,994	43	4

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
Jun 18, 2023	88.0	5,090	214,523
Aug 28, 2020	69.0	4,747	161,816
Aug 20, 2018	68.5	4,345	121,432
Jan 12, 2020	18.0	3,826	67,795
Jun 10, 2022	51.2	3,749	61,085

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.