Hempstead County, Arkansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Hempstead County, Arkansas had 30 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.55 times the US outage time per person and 1.26 times the Arkansas rate. It ranks 34 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.3major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

90 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Junhardest months

April and June made up 47% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 18, 2023, reached 2,432 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 90.0 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	102,684	42	3
2016	22,866	20	1
2017	41,839	26	4
2018	19,033	20	2
2019	40,443	28	2
2020	161,411	40	7
2021	55,209	37	3
2022	55,410	44	4
2023	152,692	28	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	90.0	2,432	91,677
Apr 13, 2020	72.2	2,010	70,494
May 11, 2015	39.5	2,274	49,074
Apr 29, 2020	41.2	1,337	29,272
Feb 2, 2023	29.8	2,752	23,580

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.