Pulaski County, Arkansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Pulaski County, Arkansas had 44 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.67 times the US outage time per person and 1.35 times the Arkansas rate. It ranks 32 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.9major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

234 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Junhardest months

July and June made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 31, 2023, reached 62,194 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 234.2 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	620,623	255	4
2016	2,049,433	225	9
2017	820,034	213	2
2018	1,757,625	240	3
2019	1,853,909	242	4
2020	770,470	255	2
2021	708,211	359	3
2022	1,055,195	340	8
2023	5,076,658	355	9

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
Mar 31, 2023	234.2	62,194	2,427,250
Jun 25, 2023	60.0	54,738	1,329,982
Jun 20, 2019	124.0	36,802	1,155,158
Jul 21, 2018	43.5	42,464	1,001,526
Jul 14, 2016	28.8	50,630	840,246

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.