Monroe County, Arkansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Monroe County, Arkansas had 17 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.25 times the US outage time per person and 2.64 times the Arkansas rate. It ranks 10 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.9major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

88 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Aprhardest months

February and April made up 43% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 24, 2022, reached 2,825 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 87.8 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	7,155	15	0
2016	13,398	17	0
2017	40,023	20	3
2018	77,150	20	3
2019	22,114	14	1
2020	78,893	35	3
2021	19,962	25	2
2022	127,439	32	3
2023	72,133	38	2

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
Feb 24, 2022	87.8	2,825	89,038
Jul 21, 2018	49.2	1,896	44,957
Apr 13, 2020	68.5	2,191	41,833
Jun 26, 2023	56.8	1,045	31,749
Apr 26, 2017	26.2	2,124	17,164

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.