Benton County, Arkansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Benton County, Arkansas had 12 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.30 times the US outage time per person and 0.24 times the Arkansas rate. It ranks 68 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

90 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aughardest months

October and August made up 53% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 21, 2019, reached 21,340 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 90.0 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Arkansas counties

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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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	16,770	21	0
2016	10,000	17	0
2017	206,622	69	2
2018	36,188	33	0
2019	1,050,857	117	3
2020	135,416	124	0
2021	197,360	110	4
2022	169,815	125	0
2023	280,217	121	3

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
Oct 21, 2019	90.0	21,340	673,641
Aug 27, 2019	52.2	24,732	241,265
Apr 26, 2017	39.2	13,723	65,902
Apr 29, 2017	40.5	16,153	63,261
Jan 25, 2023	18.5	3,019	37,030

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.