Phillips County, Arkansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Phillips County, Arkansas had 27 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.56 times the US outage time per person and 2.90 times the Arkansas rate. It ranks 8 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.0major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

99 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Febhardest months

April and February made up 69% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 13, 2020, reached 6,537 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	33,844	28	1
2016	28,511	33	1
2017	69,629	31	4
2018	22,368	15	1
2019	26,820	36	0
2020	562,933	38	8
2021	33,158	46	2
2022	204,469	52	4
2023	167,940	34	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	6,537	344,968
Feb 3, 2022	78.5	6,375	138,597
Apr 16, 2020	98.8	2,783	135,813
Feb 2, 2023	42.5	4,629	99,152
Feb 4, 2023	38.5	859	18,368

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.