Cross County, Arkansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Cross County, Arkansas had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.39 times the US outage time per person and 1.95 times the Arkansas rate. It ranks 18 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

148 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Febhardest months

March and February made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 31, 2023, reached 7,125 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 148.0 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	11,002	17	0
2016	28,478	29	0
2017	40,608	12	3
2018	33,375	18	2
2019	7,451	16	0
2020	181,366	30	4
2021	26,201	26	0
2022	195,362	35	1
2023	329,687	41	1

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
Mar 31, 2023	148.0	7,125	301,366
Feb 24, 2022	88.8	8,892	166,228
May 22, 2020	50.0	6,499	125,781
Jan 11, 2020	14.5	4,964	29,418
Apr 26, 2017	41.5	2,168	25,363

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.