Faulkner County, Arkansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Faulkner County, Arkansas had 20 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.40 times the US outage time per person and 0.33 times the Arkansas rate. It ranks 65 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.2major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

50 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Aprhardest months

June and April made up 30% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 25, 2023, reached 5,271 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 50.2 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	113,875	55	6
2016	118,018	52	0
2017	100,698	46	1
2018	84,846	55	1
2019	112,633	59	2
2020	88,932	45	1
2021	55,807	55	0
2022	235,830	79	5
2023	257,829	52	4

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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JanJFebFMarMAprAMayMJunJJulJAugASepSOctONovNDecD

Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Jun 25, 2023	50.2	5,271	104,511
Dec 23, 2022	18.2	4,343	45,237
Jul 24, 2023	8.8	7,245	44,398
Mar 11, 2022	10.2	3,416	34,993
Apr 30, 2017	37.0	7,775	34,677

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.