Hot Spring County, Arkansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Hot Spring County, Arkansas had 34 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.34 times the US outage time per person and 1.90 times the Arkansas rate. It ranks 20 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.8major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

70 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Julhardest months

April and July made up 63% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 13, 2020, reached 12,056 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 70.5 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	109,918	61	5
2016	368,435	55	6
2017	92,427	35	2
2018	62,158	45	1
2019	86,756	56	1
2020	679,816	44	5
2021	86,714	56	4
2022	131,778	59	4
2023	98,483	46	6

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
Apr 13, 2020	70.5	12,056	535,859
Jul 14, 2016	29.2	7,582	162,617
Jul 16, 2016	31.5	4,321	97,517
Apr 16, 2020	43.2	2,167	52,054
Apr 30, 2017	33.2	5,187	44,359

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.