Searcy County, Arkansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Searcy County, Arkansas had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.67 times the US outage time per person and 0.55 times the Arkansas rate. It ranks 63 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

25 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Mayhardest months

January and May made up 54% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 25, 2023, reached 1,859 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 16.0 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	8,300	7	0
2016	3,902	3	0
2017	6,692	8	0
2018	16,582	6	1
2019	10,851	4	1
2020	6,270	4	1
2021	8,031	11	0
2022	9,809	9	2
2023	45,521	12	3

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
Jan 25, 2023	16.0	1,859	21,630
Jan 25, 2023	25.0	1,019	16,852
Dec 1, 2018	17.0	700	9,610
May 18, 2019	8.0	1,205	8,486
May 22, 2022	11.5	376	4,324

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.