Baxter County, Arkansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Baxter County, Arkansas had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.07 times the US outage time per person and 0.87 times the Arkansas rate. It ranks 44 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

63 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Junhardest months

January and June made up 75% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 25, 2023, reached 14,778 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 63.0 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	2,174	3	0
2016	5,590	9	0
2017	38,504	13	1
2018	16,162	11	0
2019	24,897	14	0
2020	57,872	41	1
2021	107,570	34	2
2022	66,915	53	0
2023	690,510	45	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
Jan 25, 2023	63.0	14,778	375,891
Jan 25, 2023	21.0	16,192	233,949
Jun 12, 2021	27.5	4,712	32,895
Jun 23, 2017	21.2	3,327	23,981
Jun 12, 2021	4.2	7,368	23,793

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.