Randolph County, Arkansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Randolph County, Arkansas had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.54 times the US outage time per person and 0.44 times the Arkansas rate. It ranks 64 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

43 hrslongest major outage

May, Aprhardest months

May and April made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 1, 2017, reached 776 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 29.2 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.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	6,786	8	0
2016	1,847	2	0
2017	59,104	9	3
2018	15,342	11	1
2019	30,077	16	1
2020	33,145	12	4
2021	36,566	11	2
2022	25,801	18	2
2023	19,322	4	1

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 1, 2017	29.2	776	20,126
Apr 30, 2017	15.0	3,174	18,524
May 5, 2021	7.2	2,703	18,114
Apr 16, 2023	14.0	1,115	14,468
Jun 24, 2019	43.2	217	8,987

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.