Sharp County, Arkansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Sharp County, Arkansas had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.86 times the US outage time per person and 1.51 times the Arkansas rate. It ranks 26 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

66 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Mayhardest months

January and May made up 60% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 25, 2023, reached 5,595 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 65.5 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Arkansas counties

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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	16,856	13	0
2016	32,592	13	0
2017	117,196	26	4
2018	26,714	18	0
2019	17,704	19	0
2020	39,696	36	0
2021	51,892	34	0
2022	134,457	30	2
2023	305,252	24	5

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	65.5	5,595	138,597
Jan 25, 2023	21.5	7,832	97,318
May 21, 2022	51.0	4,401	85,260
May 27, 2017	14.8	2,886	31,954
Mar 1, 2017	33.2	3,055	29,386

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.