Poinsett County, Arkansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Poinsett County, Arkansas had 23 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.36 times the US outage time per person and 1.92 times the Arkansas rate. It ranks 19 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.6major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

73 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Febhardest months

June and February made up 50% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 25, 2023, reached 5,070 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 59.8 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	24,870	32	0
2016	67,706	33	3
2017	173,562	21	6
2018	81,140	26	3
2019	28,455	16	2
2020	31,602	24	1
2021	175,355	35	2
2022	238,182	57	2
2023	337,615	32	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 25, 2023	59.8	5,070	216,680
Dec 11, 2021	73.2	5,222	146,199
Feb 2, 2022	34.8	9,165	139,692
Jun 28, 2023	62.0	2,081	67,962
Feb 24, 2022	67.0	1,429	39,091

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.